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[nomad]

christenberry,

I'm sorry, but I have to say it:

Obvious troll is obvious.


Nuff said.

[christenberry]

 Pardon?

[Randominium]

:smug:

[blackcat34]

christenberry get your facts straight seriously. I am an admin on Five Eight Forums, unless you know for a fact that cyber attacks never happened I would ask that you keep your mouth shut. Read the post made by Thalagyrt. I have had like 10 to 12 hrs of sleep since all this crap started, trying to find out info and keeping our forum safe.

[dissentience]

Wow.

christenberry = Patrick

(before you flip out cb, that's a joke.)

[Thalagyrt]

-rw-r----- 1 root adm 734813 2009-08-22 22:17 auth.log
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 1425816 2009-08-20 06:25 auth.log.0
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 142149 2009-08-18 06:25 auth.log.1.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 254830 2009-08-17 06:25 auth.log.2.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 176217 2009-08-16 06:25 auth.log.3.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 215237 2009-08-15 06:25 auth.log.4.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 104301 2009-08-14 06:26 auth.log.5.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 52829 2009-08-09 06:47 auth.log.6.gz

That alone should say enough, if you're familiar with how logrotate works. In the time since this first appeared on 5/8, the number of attacks has become so high that it has forced the log to roll over almost every day. Before that it went 5 days and in most cases even longer without rolling over. Of course it could be a coincidence, but the timing is pretty much right on. The only reason it's still on the same logfile now is because I'm IP blocking anyone who fails login 5 times in a row.

For those curious:

This is a 5 day period, from 2009-08-09 to 2009-08-14.
fiveeight:/var/log# zgrep Invalid auth.log.5.gz | wc -l
2453

JJ showed up.

This is the period from 2009-08-14 to 2009-08-21, a 7 day period*.

fiveeight:/var/log# zgrep Invalid auth.log auth.log.0 auth.log.1.gz auth.log.2.gz auth.log.3.gz auth.log.4.gz auth.log.5.gz | wc -l
9891

Those numbers are the amount of SSH attempts made. Lets extrapolate that

2453 / 5 * 7 = 3434 on average per week.

9891 / 3434 = 2.88x the number of brute force login attempts.

Edit 2: Of those 9891, approximately 1/3rd (3413) originated in the past two days, which is precisely when the call to arms was made.

fiveeight:/var/log# zgrep Invalid auth.log auth.log.0 | wc -l
3411

* I am not counting today as brute force attacks have been rendered ineffective due to the 5 strike rule.

[Colvin]

Honestly, I gotta side with christenberry. A lot of what makes this ARG suck is the communal whining going on. I understand if you don't want to actively play, but come on. I hope you guys aren't like this in real life.

Aside from the PM freaking about the meta stuff and being really slow to post anything new, I personally think a lot of this is really awesome. The fact that the line between IG and OOG is so finely blurred makes this game a lot more interesting IMO, and the whole idea of misinformation might turn out to be an excellent move, if the PM can manage to follow it up.

I know I'm going to get a lot of "OH BUT PATRICK HACKED FORUMS" and "OH HE WAS RUDE" and I know diss is gonna come in all butthurt about how his info was posted on 4chan and how he has nothing but disdain for the game but still intends to post regularly. Honestly, if you put your info online, expect it to be harvested. It should be common sense to put a complete stranger on Limited Profile when you add them to Facebook just because of the fact that you DON'T know them.

I know this ARG is far from perfect, but christ almighty. Diss (for being harassed) and the 5/8 admins (for being DDoSed) have pretty good reasons for being upset, but that's about it.

[Nighthawk]

Re: Reckoning

[PaperbckWriter9]

 Whoops!

[medic]

Re: Whoops!

[Guest]

ITT: Epitome of Internet Drama.

Unfiction thinks it has the rules to control all arg's.
Creators had no idea such basement dwellers existed.

And of course we also have our fun ironic people who think they know everything about Internet Law.

hahaha.


So if you hate this game so much, delete the topic, and don't publically advertise it on your forums.

If you don't want the PM's to be abusive to you, don't go on them.

And, for you guys protecting Dissesence, he's a total douchebag who pissed them off personally. You guys are so Personal Army.

"Oh hay, I can go to google and type in his email and post it on /b/ because that'd be so badass" = "Oh hay I can go to whois and found out who the PM is!"

[PaperbckWriter9]

Who said anything about having control over args? I'm asking please for you to stop dropping the f*bomb & being crude. Please respect the forum and those who post here. I don't think there is anything wrong with sharing our opinions, but that doesn't mean you have to be insulting.

[kadomony]

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[Nighthawk]