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Wow...hope the bastards get caught.
Geez. Hackers who use their skills maliciously need to be banned from ever using a computer again.
I agree, except such a ban would be hard to check up on. I'd rather chop all their fingers off, just to make sure.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rhiannon
Oooh! I like that idea better, Destiny! Heh
Another board I'm on was screwed with too.
But those bastards deserved it. :devil:
If I knew how, I would have done it myself.
[Clarification]ninety-nine times out of a hundred, people who do this shit are not hackers. Hackers need to know what they are doing. People who mess with internet forums are almost always what is referred to in Tech Circles as "Script-Kiddies." A Script-Kiddie is someone with all the technical know how of a trained chimpanzee. The extent of their "l337 uBeR Haxor skillz" (This translates roughly to "elite Hacking skills" in the language of Dragonball Z) usually boils down to the following:
Step 1) Download script from internet.
Step 2) Move mousepointer over Icon.
Step 3) Doubleclick.
Step 4) Brag to fellow Script-Kiddies about their "l337 uBeR HaXoR sKillZ."[/Clarification]
The attack has hurt not just Ezboard, but a lot of its forum users, Labatt said. "I have heard from cancer patients, historians, mothers and schoolteachers about the way that their boards were damaged and were of vital importance to them," he wrote in a posting to the company's Web site.
I so wish "strippers" had been included in that list of users.
Please, think of the strippers.
Wow... I hope they catch the culprits.. and then all of us here at SW can go and beat the shit out of them for taking our website away!
There's a round of worms going around too that have been doing damage to forums everywhere. I have a friend who manages a college forum and he says sometimes it's completely unusable. It's been about a month - just like us.