weve been hijacked!

Mr.KISS · **Posted:** Sat Nov 12, 2005 6:13 am

A LONNNNNG time ago some guy threatened to be part of osme l337 retardedness clan or something, but he sounded to stupid to pull something like this off.

Choc-o-Lardiac Arrest · **Posted:** Sat Nov 12, 2005 6:14 am

Mr.KISS 66 wrote:

A LONNNNNG time ago some guy threatened to be part of osme l337 retardedness clan or something, but he sounded to stupid to pull something like this off.

this was something simple done, they just overloaded the system with so many pages on one browser and the system couldnt handle it, so it shut it down. or i could be wrong...

Mr.KISS · **Posted:** Sat Nov 12, 2005 6:17 am

But hwat it seems like is going on is that somehow it gets so that the wiki redirects you to fsserve.whatever and then that redirects you to the wiki, and then the wiki goes to that other place and so on and so on.

Choc-o-Lardiac Arrest · **Posted:** Sat Nov 12, 2005 6:20 am

Mr.KISS 66 wrote:

But hwat it seems like is going on is that somehow it gets so that the wiki redirects you to fsserve.whatever and then that redirects you to the wiki, and then the wiki goes to that other place and so on and so on.

that has been explained in the last page, but thats what happens when the system gets flooded and shuts down. frankly, its quite easy, but if its that easy, we need more security.........

Mr.KISS · **Posted:** Sat Nov 12, 2005 6:21 am

Choc-o-Lardiac Arrest wrote:

that has been explained in the last page, but thats what happens when the system gets flooded and shuts down. frankly, its quite easy, but if its that easy, we need more security.........

I agree, it seems like this place is running on a security system designed for a 500 and less users type forum, not this big ol' thing.

Choc-o-Lardiac Arrest · **Posted:** Sat Nov 12, 2005 6:24 am

aggreed, but what security sofware can be used for a phpbb forum such as this?

Mr.KISS · **Posted:** Sat Nov 12, 2005 6:27 am

That's a good question. One I can't answer.

Do you have any Painted toast? Becasue I got a serious Jones.

Choc-o-Lardiac Arrest · **Posted:** Sat Nov 12, 2005 6:28 am

'ere you go!

DS_Kid · **Posted:** Sat Nov 12, 2005 6:31 am

I think you two might be crossing the line into paranoid a little too far. We may or may not have been hacked; For all we know, the server could've just lagged a few times because of the intense amount of space used for the wiki and forum. I doubt that's the true cause, but we should honestly not worry unless the admins tell us something wrong is occuring.

EDIT: I gots good grammar (Fixed it). :mrgreen:

Choc-o-Lardiac Arrest · **Posted:** Sat Nov 12, 2005 7:25 am

well, were just the guys that treat the Wiki and its forum like.... umm.... a Nuclear device. we dont want anyone messing with it, if anyone messes with it, we work hard and ask so many questions and come up with solutions so we could try to prevent it from happening again, or exploding.

Mr.KISS · **Posted:** Sat Nov 12, 2005 7:31 am

Yes, the radiation damage from a wikipedia explosion would be incomprable to anything known to man.

Choc-o-Lardiac Arrest · **Posted:** Sat Nov 12, 2005 7:32 am

thats how much we dont have a life.

Mr.KISS · **Posted:** Sat Nov 12, 2005 7:38 am

Exactly, until I get some cash I'm stuck with my dead job and this forum as mean of staying sane.

Another toastpaint seems to be in order.

Ju Ju Master · **Joined:** Wed Jul 06, 2005 1:01 am **Posts:** 6245

Choc-o-Lardiac Arrest wrote:

it could of, now we know someone is targeting us....... were we ever threatend to be,umm..... shut down or anything?

ANd how do we know that? You're overeacting, it's probably a bug or something. IO think it stopped working around the same time as it did on Thursday, so there may be some kinda a timer thing set to do something, liek update maybe, but it's screwing up. Does anyoen know what time it went off on Thursday, I wasn't on the computer until 5:30, and I'm not even sure if I checked the wiki then. I kinda know what time it stopped working yesterday, before 4:22, but i don't know exactly, i was making a game then.

ed 'lim' smilde · **Posted:** Sat Nov 12, 2005 2:45 pm

Tom wrote:

We had some problems with a denial-of-service attack. Our quick-thinking servermaster suspended our account as a countermeasure. -- Tom 03:39, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

So, some troll bots vandalized a large portion of the wiki. Then the admins suspended the site for a while to stop the attacks.

Ju Ju Master · **Joined:** Wed Jul 06, 2005 1:01 am **Posts:** 6245

ed 'lim' smilde wrote:

Tom wrote:

We had some problems with a denial-of-service attack. Our quick-thinking servermaster suspended our account as a countermeasure. -- Tom 03:39, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

So, some troll bots vandalized a large portion of the wiki. Then the admins suspended the site for a while to stop the attacks.

Ah, I didn't see that post. I'm glad it was intentional.

ed 'lim' smilde · **Posted:** Sat Nov 12, 2005 2:56 pm

Ju Ju Master wrote:

Ah, I didn't see that post.

Actually, that was a quote from Talk:Main_Page on the wiki.

Dark Grapefruit · **Posted:** Sat Nov 12, 2005 4:51 pm

Stu wrote:

Actually... that's exactly what will happen if you don't donate money!!!!?????///1111!1!

Ok, just kidding

Stu overusing punctuation? What is going on???

Acekirby · **Posted:** Sat Nov 12, 2005 7:44 pm

Easy, juys. The Wiki and Forum might have been down for a while, but it's back up now. There's no reason to freak out- I'm sure the admins can and will get everything under control. Everything will be fine, nothing will be broken.[/suck upery]

StrongRad · **Posted:** Sat Nov 12, 2005 7:59 pm

If you were a conspiracy nut, you might be tempted to think that there are no outsiders messing things up and that the admins are just listening to me. We are in a pledge drive, after all.

The Experimental Film · **Posted:** Sun Nov 13, 2005 6:32 pm

Mr. Sparkle wrote:

Guess what day this happens?

The day I come back, that's when.

Hey, the day I got back from Happy Camp '05, we were in the midst of the Necromancer attack.

Hah! I caused a worse problem than you!

Einoo T. Spork · **Posted:** Sun Nov 13, 2005 6:36 pm

Speckeldorf wrote:

Wow... just... wow...

I was scared and stuff. So I went on over to Porple's forum. My first day there. I made 25 posts! Anyway, it's all back, and we're all ok, no one got hurt.

YAY! More people are joining the forum! I was already over there, as was The Noid...

TP. (Not toilet paper, Toastpaint.)

atacheat · **Joined:** Wed Nov 02, 2005 6:40 pm **Posts:** 44

"The Good Times Arent Over" editation quote aka editing a quote Or "Yea were saved"

ed 'lim' smilde · **Posted:** Sun Nov 13, 2005 10:41 pm

The Experimental Film wrote:

Mr. Sparkle wrote:

Guess what day this happens?

The day I come back, that's when.

Hey, the day I got back from Happy Camp '05, we were in the midst of the Necromancer attack.

Hah! I caused a worse problem than you!

I got back from a week working and a week and a week vacation (so I'd been gone for two weeks), and BAM! 509'd for a week. I figurued out later the bandwidth ran out only a couple hours before I got back.

Ha! I un-pwned you all!

Choc-o-Lardiac Arrest · **Posted:** Mon Nov 14, 2005 1:56 am

well, were now in a state of emergency. no edits or new users can join the wiki. they can join the forum, but not the wiki. there are vandals, and there is something to panic about now.

Mr.KISS · **Posted:** Mon Nov 14, 2005 2:04 am

Choc-o-Lardiac Arrest wrote:

well, were now in a state of emergency. no edits or new users can join the wiki. they can join the forum, but not the wiki. there are vandals, and there is something to panic about now.

Where was this annonced? In the talk thing?

StrongRad · **Posted:** Mon Nov 14, 2005 3:30 am

Choc-o-Lardiac Arrest wrote:

well, were now in a state of emergency. no edits or new users can join the wiki. they can join the forum, but not the wiki. there are vandals, and there is something to panic about now.

Easy there, Fox News.. :mrgreen:

I think everything is gonna be ok. I don't think this situation warrants panic. Joey and his fellas are handling this..
Everything's fine. Nothing's broken.
Eventually, whoever's doing this will get bored or get a date or whatever, and this'll blow over.

Beyond the Grave · **Posted:** Mon Nov 14, 2005 3:48 am

SR, it's COLA, he screams fire before he smells smoke.

I hope the person who is doing gets bored and stops.

StrongRad · **Posted:** Mon Nov 14, 2005 3:51 am

Beyond the Grave wrote:

SR, it's COLA, he screams fire before he smells smoke.

Note the "Fox News"... :mrgreen:

Beyond the Grave wrote:

I hope the person who is doing gets bored and stops.

If they don't, I say we visit their home as Vincent and Jules.. Yeah, I know, violence never solved anything, but it's still fun against people who would vandalize the wiki.

Acekirby · **Posted:** Mon Nov 14, 2005 9:08 pm

Mr.KISS 66 wrote:

Choc-o-Lardiac Arrest wrote:

well, were now in a state of emergency. no edits or new users can join the wiki. they can join the forum, but not the wiki. there are vandals, and there is something to panic about now.

Where was this annonced? In the talk thing?

Note the message at the top of every wiki page.

It's my feeling we'll be all right if we let the admins sort it all out. No need to panic.

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