Hackers

[Astronomical girl]

ever gotten hackers? becuase i hear that Facebook and other social sites get hacked

[Astro Forever]

ever gotten hackers? becuase i hear that Facebook and other social sites get hacked

This had nothing to do with the thread Forum Moderators and Rules/Guidelines, so I created a new thread. Astronomical girl, I can't believe I'm asking you to stick to the topic again. I don't have it in me to ask you to again and again anymore.

We were indeed hacked back in March 2006. I spoke of it a few days ago in this post.

[atoms_gf]

aww com'on she was only starting up a conversation -she might not have been on that week or day. and that thread might have been old. i started up a thread yesterday i didnt know there was already stuff realated to it; other people make reamakes of threads like the avatar thread, caption the picture game thread and other things im not trying to be bossy here but please think of some explanation first. -thanks for reading -if you did

[Astro Forever]

aww com'on she was only starting up a conversation -she might not have been on that week or day. and that thread might have been old. i started up a thread yesterday i didnt know there was already stuff realated to it; other people make reamakes of threads like the avatar thread, caption the picture game thread and other things im not trying to be bossy here but please think of some explanation first. -thanks for reading -if you did

To make things clear, I do not mind one bit that she asked if we ever had hackers and I am absolutely willing to share the story of what happened to us. I even searched on the forum and found a post that gave more details: basically, we were hacked, the hacker became the administrator and started deleting threads. Vergere did some ressearch to find out how he managed to do that and found a weakness in the forum software we were using back then. He used that weakness to hack the forum himself and, once he became the administrator, he banned the hacker and managed to contact Mark, who restored the forum and then upgraded the software so we would be safe. Vergere's hacking had to be the most generous hacking ever.

I linked to my post because the answer was there, it wasn't that I didn't want to reply. It's perfectly okay if she had not seen it, after all the topic said it was about active members, not about hackers. It was easier for me to give the link than to type it again, that's all.

Now I'll explain my reaction. In the Forum Moderators and Rules/Guidelines, in her previous post, she asked the following:

speaking about inactive members don't their profiles take up space?

We were speaking of inactive members and what happened with their avatar, and that was on topic since we were speaking about avatars, no problem until then. Whether inactive members were taking up space wasn't relevant so it was already off topic, but I ignored it and did reply anyway. I did write in the end that it wasn't really our business because only Mark knows how much database we use and can control it. In other words, any discussion over that is absolutely pointless because we can only speak "in theory" between us; the reason why I mentioned it was because I didn't want us to keep going on that, even if I didn't say so explicitely.

Then Astronomical girl asked over hackers... as I said I don't mind replying to that question, but not in the rules thread! This is an important thread, I don't want any kind of general question over the forum in there. I want to keep it only for the purpose of discussing rules and guidelines! People may not read the announcements anymore if we use it for any kind of question. Given that I have already warned Astronomical girl many times on the forum, plus I have spoken to her in private too, I am definitely less patient by now.

[atoms_gf]

oh, i understand now. i dont even know how to hack o_0 you guys must be very smart with system stuff.

[Astronomical girl]

[QUOTE=Astronomical girl;118048]ever gotten hackers? becuase i hear that Facebook and other social sites get hacked

This had nothing to do with the thread Forum Moderators and Rules/Guidelines, so I created a new thread. Astronomical girl, I can't believe I'm asking you to stick to the topic again. I don't have it in me to ask you to again and again anymore.

We were indeed hacked back in March 2006. I spoke of it a few days ago in this post.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=atoms_gf;118065]aww com'on she was only starting up a conversation -she might not have been on that week or day. and that thread might have been old. i started up a thread yesterday i didnt know there was already stuff realated to it; other people make reamakes of threads like the avatar thread, caption the picture game thread and other things im not trying to be bossy here but please think of some explanation first. -thanks for reading -if you did

To make things clear, I do not mind one bit that she asked if we ever had hackers and I am absolutely willing to share the story of what happened to us. I even searched on the forum and found a post that gave more details: basically, we were hacked, the hacker became the administrator and started deleting threads. Vergere did some ressearch to find out how he managed to do that and found a weakness in the forum software we were using back then. He used that weakness to hack the forum himself and, once he became the administrator, he banned the hacker and managed to contact Mark, who restored the forum and then upgraded the software so we would be safe. Vergere's hacking had to be the most generous hacking ever.

I linked to my post because the answer was there, it wasn't that I didn't want to reply. It's perfectly okay if she had not seen it, after all the topic said it was about active members, not about hackers. It was easier for me to give the link than to type it again, that's all.

Now I'll explain my reaction. In the Forum Moderators and Rules/Guidelines, in her previous post, she asked the following:

speaking about inactive members don't their profiles take up space?

We were speaking of inactive members and what happened with their avatar, and that was on topic since we were speaking about avatars, no problem until then. Whether inactive members were taking up space wasn't relevant so it was already off topic, but I ignored it and did reply anyway. I did write in the end that it wasn't really our business because only Mark knows how much database we use and can control it. In other words, any discussion over that is absolutely pointless because we can only speak "in theory" between us; the reason why I mentioned it was because I didn't want us to keep going on that, even if I didn't say so explicitely.

Then Astronomical girl asked over hackers... as I said I don't mind replying to that question, but not in the rules thread! This is an important thread, I don't want any kind of general question over the forum in there. I want to keep it only for the purpose of discussing rules and guidelines! People may not read the announcements anymore if we use it for any kind of question. Given that I have already warned Astronomical girl many times on the forum, plus I have spoken to her in private too, I am definitely less patient by now.[/QUOTE]
@Astro Forever,
originally,Astro Forever,i didn't expect you to make a thread to answer my question but thank you anyway for answering, and i am keeping in mind about keeping things ontopic 3-l

[diehard67]

lowser black hats (bad guy hackers) always makeing trouble that white hats (good guy hackers) like Vergere, me and anybody else here that I don't know about, have to clean up.

btw: what software was the forum using before the upgrade?????????

[Astro Forever]

I can't remember. phpBB, maybe? I think I would remember better if it was, because I owned one at some point, so I'm not sure. Do any of the old members remember?

[Astro Forever]

Found it. It was Invision Power Board.

[Ghost]

I know a little bit about hacking but not much,I'm not claiming to be 1337 or anything like that.

But out of curiosity, Astro Forever why didn't you make a thread about my question on trolls? I asked something similar about how often this forum gets internet trolls but you didn't give me any warnings or make a new thread about it, why?