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[pegassissy]

[Poll] Was it alright for us to hack the photobucket?

[brettoniasam]

A simple yes or no doesn't necessarily suffice.

How about a follow-up question: was it right for us to hack into jamielovesteddy.com?

There was no direct indication that we were "supposed" to hack JLT, but somebody did, and the game progressed because of it, and everyone patted themselves on the back for it.

Now, someone hacks the PB site, and the *same self-congratulatory ones* who praised the Jamielovesteddy hack act like a) no one should have attempted the Photobucket account and b) doing so is a violation of ARG rules, federal law, copyright law, at least three articles of the Geneva Convention.

[Arkaham]

What good was having the jaimielovesteddy site without the hacking? None. What bad could have been done by hacking into it? none.

What good was having the photobucket site without the hacking? Many, it was a tool to store the pictures for the myspace account, and people could already see anything they put up there. What bad could have been done by hacking into it? Many. And it was done. People deleted pictures. They put up nonsense up. The myspace was damaged, and it could had been worst.

So no, it is not the same thing. And it's not a legal affair. It's the fact that the game may had been derailed. It was for many people, just see the ones posting about getting notifications about Rob's Blog. The game was jacked for them.

[Matt Dark]

Fact is that anytime something comes up on the web we're not suppose to see Paramount yanks it. Photobucket page still there, jamieandteddy.com: still there. If we weren't suppose to hack it why are they still there, it's pointless to have videos/pictures without someone to see them. JJ and his crew are smart, if we weren't suppose to he would have shut what we did hack down and start something new and throw in a clue on the Happy Talk or Myspace or somewhere to lead us to that.

[brettoniasam]

[keeno_82uk]

waste of breath to try and explain the following words as you all know what you were getting into.

Shame on you

[Nighthawk]

I find it disturbing so many people voring "yes", but you're not asking the big question... WHY do people think it was OK?

There is a difference between photobucket and JLT site. The JLT site was CREATED and DESIGNED to be "hacked", and even so it wasn't rocket surgery to get the password. You cannot compare that to a pre-existing widely used service.

Let's try to look at this another way... Google has all the information, doesn't it? After all, we gound Tagruato through Google, so they must have more information, right? So why don't you just go hack Google?

Or hack MySpace? I mean, they got to have information in there somewhere, right?

Or hack GoDaddy? They're hosting these sites, right?

Or hack Paramount Pictures website? There's got to be something in there, right?

Or hack Apple's Quicktime site? There's got to be a new trailer in there somewhere, right?

Where exactly is the "line in the sand", in your eyes? If you look at any of the above and think "man, that's a bad idea", what makes Photobucket any different?

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[rose]

[SlushoLover]

[egyptianruin]

I look at it this way the hack into JLY was meant to be discovered - it was the password associated with the people involved in the gameplay - which would lead me to believe they knew someone would figure it out, it wasn't a pw that indicated that this was a movie in the making. However the paramount password is indicative that is was in relation to a movie or production. Albeit the password was way to easy and that is the result of poor decision making skills I do not think we were intended to figure it out.

[InAFieldofClover]

I don't think the PB was meant to be hacked. I think this was a case of someone on the film's end not being all that bright about picking passwords. In terms of the game, it just doesn't make sense that her password would be the name of the studio releasing the film. Sure, it could've had other meanings to the character... but come on.

Going into the account itself isn't really that bad, to tell you the truth. Where the hacker fucked up was deleting the existing pictures, not linking us to them because they may hold potential clues, and uploading a bunch of new ones just to fuck with us. I'd be way more interested in the pics that already existed inside the account than anything else.

So... hacking? Fine. If you have the urge to look into something like that, cool, can't say I wouldn't do the same. But fucking with the account, deleting all the pics, filling the character's myspace page with a bunch of broken images, and uploading new ones just to fuck with us? Not fine.

[Ecks51]

[InAFieldofClover]

Are we speaking IG when we talk about "hacking" JLT? If not... wow, some of you have the line between reality and fantasy blurred beyond recognition.

JLT asked for a password. Someone came here, presumably someone affiliated with the movie, posted once (giving the password) and left. I don't see the huge invite we had to hack the photobucket account. In all likelihood, the PB's hold nothing of value otherwise there would've been a clear indication that we needed to get inside of it, like JLT.

In short, anyone who even refers to getting inside JLT as 'hacking' needs to maybe step away from the computer for a minute or so. You're talking about a fictional character not wanting their videos strewn across the internet. You do realize this, right? Fictional character. A fictional character that happens to have a website devoted to her fictional boyfriend, speaking of fictional situations in her videos and having someone from the movie studio who created her come to this board and give us the password.

...yeah, they sure didn't intend for us to know the password! Shame on us for being big scary hackers!

[Dr. Awkward]

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