Stinkin' Hackers
last modified: Thursday, June 18, 2009 (5:32:23 PM)
Okay so hacker isn't the correct term as there really wasn't any hacking involved. But...I forget the correct term right now. >.<' Anyways a certain children's roleplaying site that I'm an admin on was attacked once again by this one persistent hacker. By persistent I mean we've been fighting this same fellow off for about a year now. Last night he rejoined the site as a new member and asked a certain admin for help in a pm with links attached. When that admin foolishly clicked on the links somehow that gave the hacker her passwords to her account. So this very destructive fellow had admin powers in his hot little hand. Luckily this time the irritating guy only managed to delete the staff board, which is slightly irksome, and the bio boards for one of the areas in the game, which is extremely annoying. Before anymore harm was done we banhammered the IP putting a hold on his rampage. Then quickly demoted the infected admin's account to normal member until everything can be fixed and changed so he can't get back on. And of course banned the proxy account used to send the pm that caused the problem in the first place. Unfortunately we know full well that his computer generates random IPs so he'll be back. So now the sites on high alert once again. Ugh the stupid needless stress caused by clever computer users. XD It would be WAY less stressful if the site we use to host the game had a way to restore deleted files. As there would be really nothing any hacker could do that would cause actual damage to the game.
What I do find funny is that this person is bothering to attack a single site for over a year. And it's not like this is a very unique site at all. As there are literally THOUSANDS of similar sites just like it or even better (as ours is made for children it's heavily censored compared to others). It just seems like it would make sense if you didn't like a site for some reason to either not go to that site or create a site similar but better. I really don't understand the motives for this fellows actions. It just seems really pointless. And that's how this weeks going.XD
On a completely different subject I started watching Naruto. My friend gave me the first three boxsets because she didn't like the show anymore. SCORE! Free anime rocks! I'm still not sure if I like the anime yet though. For some reason the pacing seems off even though it's sticking incredible true to the manga so far. I dunno why it's bothering me. But I never really like the whole arch with Haku and that other guy whose name I can never spell. Also occasionally the animation is bad. So I hope they got a bigger budget in the future. XD Not that it bothers me too much. I mean two of my favorite shows Sailor Moon and Dragonball Z had repeat animation galore!