Interlopers is down again

Interlopers is down again

Re: Interlopers is down again Posted by Guessmyname on Fri Aug 5th 2005 at 9:35am
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Site will be back soon, sorry for any inconviences. Some one has
accessed the server through the forum and pretty much brought the
server to it's knees. I may need to re-install the whole forum and site
so it could be offline a while, don't you just love 1337 hax0rs?
God damn f**kwitted hackers...
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Re: Interlopers is down again Posted by jaardsi on Fri Aug 5th 2005 at 9:39am
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Posted 2005-08-05 9:39am
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*crackers
Re: Interlopers is down again Posted by Crono on Fri Aug 5th 2005 at 9:49am
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Posted 2005-08-05 9:49am
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Oh don't give me that "damn hackers" s**t. MAKE A MORE SECURE SYSTEM.

It's the developers fault that they left a weakness in the site.

I guarantee you the hacker got in by overflowing some sort of input buffer and getting access to the server with root access. Which means they didn't do something as simple as check their input buffer, or limit character input.

That is the owners fault. Because you assume that someone is going to attack it.

Sorry, but I'm getting sick of site owners going, "oh my god!! There are people trying to take over my site!! I never would have thought it would happen". Or People who're all, "My site is 100% secure". They're equally bad mind sets.

It's the price you pay. However, don't think I'm supporting hacking, but security is one of the first things you realize and learn you need and the understanding that it will never be close to 100% (even with something like quantum encryption, there will probably be a way to hack it).

On another note, I always get hacking and cracking confused. One, I think cracking, it legitimate and is rarely used in a malicious way.
Blame it on Microsoft, God does.
Re: Interlopers is down again Posted by DrGlass on Fri Aug 5th 2005 at 9:54am
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Re: Interlopers is down again Posted by $loth on Fri Aug 5th 2005 at 10:15am
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Re: Interlopers is down again Posted by Madedog on Fri Aug 5th 2005 at 10:29am
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On another note, I always get hacking and cracking confused. One, I
think cracking, it legitimate and is rarely used in a malicious way.
Indeed, you GET it confused.

Hackers are the "good guys", they search for security holes in systems, they make the world bettah place.

Crackers, on the other hand, are assholes, they try to screw up
everything they see. They break in systems to vandalize, they write
viruses, they try to make world a bad place. They think they are ?ber,
but they are mostly only preteen/teen punks. On the other hand, they
can be even 30-40 year olds, who have nothing better to do.
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Re: Interlopers is down again Posted by $loth on Fri Aug 5th 2005 at 10:44am
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Crackers, well prawn crackers are nice. The other crackers can be good
some times, it annoys me when I got GTA3 and had to keep putting the CD
in.
Re: Interlopers is down again Posted by Crono on Fri Aug 5th 2005 at 11:13am
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I'm sure there are "good guys" that are in both areas, but, yes, that's what I thought. Just use the term "hacker" out of habit, I think.

Does it really matter though? Both can be equally detrimental.
Blame it on Microsoft, God does.
Re: Interlopers is down again Posted by Leperous on Fri Aug 5th 2005 at 3:44pm
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What forumware did they use? (phpBB, Invision, ...?)
Re: Interlopers is down again Posted by Guessmyname on Fri Aug 5th 2005 at 6:52pm
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I can't remember
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Re: Interlopers is down again Posted by Madedog on Fri Aug 5th 2005 at 7:40pm
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I think 'twas phpbb.

What is this forum here using? Homemade forums, Lep?
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Re: Interlopers is down again Posted by Rumple on Sat Aug 6th 2005 at 5:42am
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I think 'twas phpbb.

What is this forum here using? Homemade forums, Lep?
http://www.snarkpit.net/index.php?page=faq#snarkpower
Re: Interlopers is down again Posted by Leperous on Sat Aug 6th 2005 at 10:47am
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Yes, though it's akin to phpBB 1.4 (the old versions) and without all the old & new security problems...