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Alliance hacked again |
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Posts: 756 1-Apr-06 16:53 8-bits token Scottish guy |
Looks like the Alliance site has been hacked again - one forum now full of threads from the private forums. What a mess
 LSN Name: Rye League: Elite Clan: 8-Bit Fanatics "Sometimes I drink my whiskey neat. Other times I take my tie off and leave my shirt out" Tommy Cooper. |
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RazorFire |
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Posts: 147 1-Apr-06 17:04 |
 looks like the FBI caught the hackers. Good. |
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Vasco |
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Posts: 1690 1-Apr-06 20:02 Local user |
I think people should be allowed to re-challenge for April as you have to assume your opponents have read your team secret's.
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Indricotherium |
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Posts: 6040 1-Apr-06 20:45 Budda on an anthill |
Good. Looks like the admins have taken the board down, so at least we can't be all reading each others stuff. What a friggen mess from yet another pathetico.
May as well post here as Alliance is out ATM, I will be subbing in for Colonel Mustard for April in both matches. My week turned crazy and like an idiot I didn't get our lineups down as I wanted to (randomised with a die  ) so the default lineup kicked in.LSN:Indricotherium, GMT-5, League:Elite, Alliance:Doomed, Specialist:L.O.G.
You try to add a plastic tree to the barricade, but can't find a place for it.         |
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General Strike |
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Posts: 1778 1-Apr-06 20:49 |
Vasco, I will assume you are not serious. We admins really do not need any more work at present. I also think that FBI thing is just a ruse to put people off their site. The twits behind this are probably just counting the hits and sniggering.
I have turned the board off for the moment so your posts will be safe from prying eyes for the moment. This is a big problem. Last time they just decorated the site a bit. This time they really have deleted all the forums and set them all to be in one big forum, deleting all the useful data from the database. I do not have a recent backup, Brootal might but I would not hold your breath. We have both been rather too busy with RL of late. So, current choices appear to be: a) wipe the board and start again b) go through say all the posts made in the last month and try and put them in the right forums, accepting that this means one of the admins will have read them (we normally always stay completely clear of team forums). All older posts will be lost c) errr.... anyone got any better suggestions? I am just so very cheesed off by all this. At least last time it was just a bit of decoration. I have better things to do than scrape up the detritus of some juveniles. aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh LSN Name: General Strike | League: Elite | Alliance Clan: 99ers(Captain) | Time Zone: GMT
Holder of record for shortest time in elite (0 games) One League to rule them all One League whence to find them One League to rate them all Elite to Rookie, Grind them (With apologies to J.R.R.Tolkien)    |
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smart bunny |
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Posts: 4054 1-Apr-06 21:04 One by one, |
Wow, sounds like they've really stuffed things up. I haven't looked at Alliance since reading it had been hacked, so didn't realise what a mess it actually was.
If you wipe the boards, will you still keep all the match line-up info and current recorded results on the fixtures pages? If so that's probably by far the easiest way to go...... I'm sure people would be able to remember any results posted since the last update? Although I know the Clowns results from match 1 weren't even up so maybe it would be a bit tricky? Also I would have thought there would be very few (if any) LSNers who would try to use this to their advantage. That shows a pretty poor opinion of people. PS Although option b) would be the most efficient, I think this would create far too much work for just 2 admins....      League: Elite, Alliance League: The Cursed Clowns, Specialist League: Dead Things Walking, MTL: Exploding Carrots   |
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pickupsticks |
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Posts: 5409 1-Apr-06 21:08 Tori Fan |
Quote: even though i'm not actually in the competion, i heartily second that. :nod |
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Vasco |
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Posts: 1690 1-Apr-06 21:32 Local user |
Thinking about it I doubt many people will have done their April challenge yet, I know I haven't. I say just wipe the forums and start again. I know our team can cope.
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REDLAN |
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Posts: 1012 1-Apr-06 21:48 |
don't even know who I'm gonna play yet anyhow.
Just need to reconstruct the scorelines - I've still got the results, if we need to start all over again, so I don't think it would be a problem. As far as the Brigs go we had some pretty sensitive stuff (as far as our game plans go) so we'll have to abandon our plans, but hey I guess that's the way the cookie crumbles... Old enough to know better. Young enough not to care...
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BA Nimzomitch |
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Posts: 2532 1-Apr-06 22:00 |
What a bummer - we 8-Bits had quite a huge history of postings, much of it quite fun to look back on, not to mention a couple historic match threads that went for 20+ pages, plus primer threads and specific race/LSN/how to advice threads.
Shame to lose it all...    |
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smart bunny |
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Posts: 4054 1-Apr-06 22:32 One by one, |
Quote:  Oh, um, well, you'd best talk nicely to GS and Broot then, I guess they'll find it easy to see which threads are yours  (Although maybe those should be put proudly on display for others to goggle at  ) League: Elite, Alliance League: The Cursed Clowns, Specialist League: Dead Things Walking, MTL: Exploding Carrots |
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worto03 |
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Posts: 3442 1-Apr-06 22:49 Kick me officially |
Hey GS - you guys do a great job with the alliance if we need to loose it all & start again then thats what we'll do.
It's not really fair to expect you to sort through all of that & try to put it in the right place. i take it you'll still keep all of the site data? erm & maybe a backup schedule would be a good idea Thinking about it I might backup some of my stuff tomorrow. ahhh good job there's always tomorrow to do mi backups  worto. |
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rainman999 |
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Posts: 4100 2-Apr-06 00:20 hey hey 16k |
anything to stop the pain worto is inflicting on me
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worto03 |
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Posts: 3442 2-Apr-06 00:53 Kick me officially |
thats a march game so shouldn't be effected. I thought you might be getting annoyed when I saw your last turn message. Quote: now send some turns in  worto |
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rainman999 |
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Posts: 4100 2-Apr-06 02:21 hey hey 16k |
oh.. thought it was to be reset completely and i would escape the misery hehe!
you are confident now i sent that last message! I know you are cos i saw it in your not so secret anymore clan thread! teehee |
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Indricotherium |
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Posts: 6040 2-Apr-06 03:14 Budda on an anthill |
I too, would lament the loss of the better, cool historical/tactics/etc.. threads but am firmly in the camp of 'I do this out of love for the comp'. So, if put to a vote I'd say wipe it clean.
You guys will have work enough just recreating the forums and rights, etc... Maybe you can stick the existing threads in a secret tucked away forum and if a clan requests a thread by easy-to-find-title you could restore. This way you'd only be restoring threads people really cared about. After a few months you'd just say the heck with it and whack the lot of them. LSN:Indricotherium, GMT-5, League:Elite, Alliance:Doomed, Specialist:L.O.G.
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BA Nimzomitch |
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Posts: 2532 2-Apr-06 04:13 |
I wonder if there would be any way to resolve a list of player/team to the thread starter to decide which threads went where, then all that would be need done is parse the threads by starter?
Would take maybe a little programming which I admit I have none, but...well you know. hehe |
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smart bunny |
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Posts: 4054 2-Apr-06 08:45 One by one, |
Quote: Hmm, yeah, just like another clan forum, then the threads could be retrieved at a slow, convenient pace as necessary. It would also mean the forum could be up and running again quickly. But obviously, only if it can be done easily, it's not like you should worry if you have to move each thread individually - that'd be far too much work. To be honest, whatever you want to do we'll go with it GS, you do quite enough already!! League: Elite, Alliance League: The Cursed Clowns, Specialist League: Dead Things Walking, MTL: Exploding Carrots |
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Vasco |
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Posts: 1690 2-Apr-06 08:54 Local user |
I've got some subs to make for April, we should have an official place somewhere within this forum system, ok to create one here?
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smart bunny |
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Posts: 4054 2-Apr-06 09:12 One by one, |
How about in the tournaments forum? Do you think everyone would check there?
League: Elite, Alliance League: The Cursed Clowns, Specialist League: Dead Things Walking, MTL: Exploding Carrots |
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Duke Garland |
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Posts: 2897 2-Apr-06 09:34 Blutkind |
why don't you just use cryptography (for example with "team keys") so your team messages would be unreadable for others, even if they see them?
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