tutorial site hacked?

Heald · Post by **Heald** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 3:57 pm

i went to the rjukan project site and:

http://gronnevik.se/rjukan/index.php?n=Main.Barrels

to read up on making exploding barrels but the site appears that its been hacked or someone is playing a joke.

lizardkid · Post by **lizardkid** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 5:20 pm

i think thye just changed it with the premade features. since Bjarne isn't around i'll go fix it...

EDIT: What... a.... queer.
I edited all the pages that he changed, and repaired some. Bjarne looked like he was editing too so it'll be normal soon.

Post by **Rookie One.pl** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 6:22 pm

Something tells me it's been BuZeR. Sniff... sniff... I smell 0wndja aka Clarius.

lizardkid · Post by **lizardkid** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 6:44 pm

He's still on there changing. i hope Bjarne does weekly/monthly backups.

Heald · Post by **Heald** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 7:33 pm

when i first saw it, buzar was on here making the dumbest posts ive ever seen

panTera · Post by **panTera** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 9:09 pm

I mailed Bjarne a week ago when I was seeing strange text across the site. He knows about this and said it had to do with the Wiki-editing and spambots:(

lizardkid · Post by **lizardkid** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 9:36 pm

yep, Bjarne got it passworded now, so anyone who needs to edit it has to get the pw, which isnt given out without sacrificing your firstborn.

Post by **Bjarne BZR** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 9:58 pm

lizardkid wrote:which isnt given out without sacrificing your firstborn.

Actually, As it is a spam-bot, I feel totally secure posting the edit password here, it is:

Code: Select all

icaneditpages

Keep your firstborn

.

Thanx to all involved for giving me the heads up and helping me keep the good content of the site intact. That is your content, the stuff I write is incomprehensible gibberish

.

bdbodger · Post by **bdbodger** » Wed Jul 20, 2005 6:52 am

When I first heard about wiki I thought something like that was bound to happen eventually . Some ppl just get off doing harm .

Splaetos · Post by **Splaetos** » Wed Jul 20, 2005 10:02 am

they get off more on the distress any damage they cause creates, because in thier impotent lives they feel powerless and weak, therefore they must seek out any way, however hollow to feel that they are powerful, rather then the shallow, weak shell of a sub-human malcontented, degenerate that they truely know themselves to be. =)

Post by **Bjarne BZR** » Wed Jul 20, 2005 11:03 am

bdbodger and Splaetos: you are confusing these spammings with hacker-morons. Hacker morons are not drawn to editing Wikis because anyone can do it.

This spamming is fuled by the desire to get your own porn/viagra/junk site higher in search engine results. Entering a lot of links to a site in open Wikis using a bot can be a time/cost-effective road to higher rankings in search engines as the automated search engine indexers can see that the site has lots of links referencing it.

Unfortunately the negative effect on those targeted by these spam attacks is far greater than any positive effect these porn/viagra/junk sites may get from the spam.

bdbodger · Post by **bdbodger** » Wed Jul 20, 2005 11:49 am

Well I just ment that the open concept makes it subject to abuse .

Post by **Bjarne BZR** » Wed Jul 20, 2005 1:16 pm

It is indeed. I was amazed at how long it took for bots to be used to spam actually.

Splaetos · Post by **Splaetos** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 9:29 pm

and I just meant the internet is pretty jam packed with idiots =)