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tutorial site hacked?
Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2005 3:57 pm
by Heald
Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2005 5:20 pm
by lizardkid
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.
Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2005 6:22 pm
by Rookie One.pl
Something tells me it's been BuZeR. Sniff... sniff... I smell 0wndja aka Clarius.
Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2005 6:44 pm
by lizardkid
He's still on there changing. i hope Bjarne does weekly/monthly backups.
Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2005 7:33 pm
by Heald
when i first saw it, buzar was on here making the dumbest posts ive ever seen
Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2005 9:09 pm
by panTera
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:(
Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2005 9:36 pm
by lizardkid
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.

Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2005 9:58 pm
by Bjarne BZR
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:
Keep your firstborn

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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

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Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 6:52 am
by bdbodger
When I first heard about wiki I thought something like that was bound to happen eventually . Some ppl just get off doing harm .
Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 10:02 am
by Splaetos
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. =)
Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 11:03 am
by Bjarne BZR
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.

Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 11:49 am
by bdbodger
Well I just ment that the open concept makes it subject to abuse .
Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 1:16 pm
by Bjarne BZR
It is indeed. I was amazed at how long it took for bots to be used to spam actually.
Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 9:29 pm
by Splaetos
and I just meant the internet is pretty jam packed with idiots =)