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Xkeeper
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Posted on 08-27-05 11:59 PM Link
I'm sure you all know how it started -- that joke layout I made that netted me a one month ban and, assumably, another strike (heh).

After again asking Acmlm what the page to strike a user was...
Acmlm, in IRC
09:32'05"p| <Xkeeper> Can you give me the link to strike a user in the idiot tracker?
09:32'47"p| <Xkeeper> I'm just going to give myself a few billion strikes by putting it as my minpic xD
09:34'16"p| <Xkeeper> http://board.acmlm.org/ppanel/commenttracker.php?id=13591
09:59'57"p| <Acmlm> http://board.acmlm.org/ppanel/commenttracker.php?id=13591&strike=1
10:40'56"p| <Xkeeper> awesome, thanks
10:49'50"p| <Acmlm> up from 4 to 13 strikes already


They seemed to figure out it was mostly just a joke, but Yiffy Kitten remained a bitch and followed through with the promise he made in the Profile Editing Requests thread:
Originally posted in Yiffy Kitten in the Private Area (here)
When I get my PMA access back, I'm blocking Xkeeper's layout to EVERYONE.


Which, as evidenced by the sudden appearance of three instances of "Xkeeper" in my blocked layout list, obviously happened.

Acmlm informed me that this was, in fact, horribly coded:
Acmlm, in a private IRC chat
09:29'43"p| <Acmlm> it takes a few seconds to run
09:29'55"p| <Acmlm> "3001 records updated"
[...]
09:38'32"p| <Acmlm> 3001 queries each
09:38'40"p| <Xkeeper> plus 2-3 seconds of operation time
09:38'43"p| <Acmlm> even when it's simple ones
09:38'44"p| <Acmlm> that adds up


So I put two and two together and made a small script that loaded that page 25 times and kept refreshing itself. Acmlm joined in for a while, I pasted the link in #rom-hacking, and the effects were pretty instant (constant "Couldn't connect to the MySQL server!" errors). The irony being they were contemplating putting this stupid thing into every page, so I'm sure they'd have almost as much of a strain...

Past that, they finally got their brains working and simply made it admin only, so that Yiffy Kitten could still abuse it.

Shortly after, I found myself unable to edit various things in my profile (after being banned/unbanned again). Turns out they added another piece of code to the board:
Acmlm, in IRC again
10:11'50"p| <Acmlm> 10:11'50"p| <Acmlm> if(!function_exists(libdec)){die('The required libraries have not been defined.');}
10:11'50"p| <Acmlm> mysql_query("UPDATE `users` SET `minipic`='',`picture`='',`postbg`='',`postheader`='',`signature`='',`title`='',`bio`='' WHERE `id`='87'");
10:11'51"p| <Acmlm> ?>
10:11'57"p| <Acmlm> in a file that's called on every page


Oh well, doesn't matter, I can live without those anyway, but I still think it was horribly stupid of them to just fuck up the code however they please, since I'm aparrently more important than the broken schemes or various other problems with the board right now. I'm honored.

Continuing, onto the pink day:
Acmlm, in IRC


12:30'56"a| <Xkeeper> http://xkeeper.shacknet.nu:3/purplebutton3.html
[lines detailing original clicker of button removed]
12:32'00"a| <Acmlm> haha
12:32'07"a| <Acmlm> hahaha
12:32'08"a| <Acmlm> he did
12:32'09"a| <Acmlm> askdghsdukgs
12:32'10"a| <Acmlm> haha
12:32'28"a| <Acmlm> HAPPY PINK DAY BOARD
[more useless lines]
12:33'39"a| <Acmlm> some people already changed back
12:33'46"a| <Acmlm> someone should post an announcement
12:33'47"a| <Acmlm> "Squishies!"
12:34'23"a| <Acmlm> "It's a real epidemy, it spread here after invading twilightRO"


Whoops. Oh well, all in good fun and it's not like it admined everyone. A little insanity is good sometimes.

Then a while later...
Acmlm, IRC, same old shit

01:43'32"a| <Xkeeper> banned, profile edited
01:43'36"a| <Xkeeper> name edited too
01:46'03"a| <Acmlm> Legion became owner
01:46'04"a| <Acmlm> hm
[...]
01:51'40"a| <Acmlm> hm
01:51'44"a| <Acmlm> he got renamed to "Legion"
01:51'48"a| <Acmlm> without any other admin around
01:52'17"a| <Xkeeper> PMA?
01:52'52"a| <Acmlm> maybe, I have no clue who even has access now
01:53'03"a| <Xkeeper> renamed to "King Emo"
01:53'11"a| <Acmlm> yep
01:53'22"a| <Acmlm> and 255 strikes
01:53'31"a| <Acmlm> so who gave him access
[...]
01:55'12"a| <Xkeeper> hmm
01:55'16"a| <Xkeeper> admin 1469
01:55'18"a| <Xkeeper> (me)
01:55'29"a| <Xkeeper> I can just keep unbanning myself
[...]
01:56'46"a| <Xkeeper> Leg ownered
01:57'07"a| <Acmlm> yep
01:57'17"a| <Acmlm> he's in the admin forum now
01:57'46"a| <Acmlm> I'll try banning and see how long it lasts
01:58'12"a| <Xkeeper> fullmodded
01:58'19"a| <Acmlm> not even 1 minute



Which, as I'm sure you know (after being admined) led to me demoting everyone and attempting to (for about an hour) keep various people from getting demoted/promoted and keep things from going insane, before going to bed and finding out TG took it upon himself to put everyone back.

So, now you know what was me, what wasn't me, and what actually happened.


Oh, and for the record, the "Thank you, Acmlm, for ___________" lines posted in the staff forum were, in fact, him just making up random garbage. Anyone that has access to the code can easily find out that there is no such text in any file.
Legion
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Posted on 08-28-05 12:06 AM Link
For starters, don't look at me.

Second, and lastly, "squishies" are cloth wearers i.e. spellcasters.
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Posted on 08-28-05 12:08 AM Link
For awhile it was pretty damned hilarious though. Almost everyone was and still is a girl. I don't understand why Legion said what you were doing wasn't productive. There's his sign.
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Posted on 08-28-05 12:10 AM Link
Well it's not like he was working on his augmented mind powers to knock down fences. Oh yeah, I haven't forgotten about that thread. >D
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Posted on 08-28-05 12:11 AM Link
So that´s why everyone turned pink. But I wasn´t affected since I was already pink.

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Posted on 08-28-05 12:16 AM Link
This says it all.
http://board.acmlm.org/ranks.php?set=1&showall=1
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Posted on 08-28-05 12:21 AM Link
Honestly, I thought it was Rydain because of her gender-change thread. I checked the board this morning, noticed all the god-awful pink lettering and thought, "Oh wow, she really meant to do that... eh... wait... wtf?"


(edited by Cruel Justice on 08-27-05 03:22 PM)
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Posted on 08-28-05 12:26 AM Link
I noticed the pink last night..I was like wtf?!

I didn't see her gender change thread, just the announcement thing..I still was confused then just went to bed..
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Posted on 08-28-05 12:35 AM Link
Uh-oh. Acmlm got drunk and started expirementing with drugs for his birthday.
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Posted on 08-28-05 12:36 AM Link
I'm noticing that most boards are being hacked. smwedit's board was hacked yesterday too. He shows the IP hacker here. But that doesn't make it the same hacker.

http://edit.ed.funpic.org/thread.php?user=1
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Posted on 08-28-05 12:39 AM Link
Originally posted by MarioMaster
I'm noticing that most boards are being hacked. smwedit's board was hacked yesterday too. He shows the IP hacker here. But that doesn't make it the same hacker.

http://edit.ed.funpic.org/thread.php?user=1
XD

Yes, deleting the database will solve all of your hacking problems.
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Posted on 08-28-05 12:40 AM Link
Anyone can use an IP spoofer and exploit a bunch of crap on a board. Attempting to find a hacker is pretty useless, not a ghost of a chance unless you too have some hacking knowledge.
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Posted on 08-28-05 01:58 AM Link
Originally posted by Xkeeper

Oh, and for the record, the "Thank you, Acmlm, for ___________" lines posted in the staff forum were, in fact, him just making up random garbage. Anyone that has access to the code can easily find out that there is no such text in any file.



So it was just a coincidence that he said "thank you for destaffing everyone", and then a few hours later, everyone was, in fact, destaffed?

I'm just making sure here. Because that specific portion of the log was shown to show me how much of everything Ace was actually involved in. The person who showed it then said that he was not involved with the destaffing, despite what that log would imply.

While I figured that there was no such text in the code, I took it to mean that he was actually doing that stuff at the same time he was in IRC.
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Posted on 08-28-05 06:11 AM Link
Personally, I find this entirely amusing,

Go go go Xk.
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Posted on 08-28-05 06:34 AM Link
I guess the conclusion of the weird colors for users was that Yiffy Kitten turned to the dark side and abused phpMyAdmin to create this weird female user madness. Unless Yiffy Kitten's password was stolen.

EDIT: Thanks for finding this out and helping us understand what happened. I wondered why almost everybody was pink....

EDIT 2: Ignore the striked text. It was a misunderstanding of mine upon reading this thread.


(edited by AP on 08-27-05 09:38 PM)
(edited by AP on 08-27-05 09:56 PM)
(edited by AP on 08-27-05 09:56 PM)
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Posted on 08-28-05 06:50 AM Link
Originally posted by AP
I guess the conclusion of the weird colors for users was that Yiffy Kitten turned to the dark side and abused phpMyAdmin to create this weird female user madness. Unless Yiffy Kitten's password was stolen.




Uh no? Xkeeper turned all the usernames pink and Yiffy Kitten didn't mess with the PMA at all. Where did you get all that from?
HyperLamer
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Posted on 08-28-05 06:51 AM Link
Yiffy Kitten wasn't even here, AFAIK.
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Posted on 08-28-05 06:52 AM Link
Originally posted by Legion
Originally posted by AP
I guess the conclusion of the weird colors for users was that Yiffy Kitten turned to the dark side and abused phpMyAdmin to create this weird female user madness. Unless Yiffy Kitten's password was stolen.

Uh no? Xkeeper turned all the usernames pink and Yiffy Kitten didn't mess with the PMA at all. Where did you get all that from?
Well, the only other person I can think of is ||bass ...

But as I said, I'm not telling who made everyone female (hint: it wasn't me or Acmlm) as I always do. I never mention anyone, unless it kind of requires it (i.e. here, with Acmlm)


(edited by Xkeeper on 08-27-05 09:53 PM)
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Whoops. Sorry for the confusion. You can ignore that other post I made.
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It wasn't ||bass either. D:
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