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[MrToasty]

[Euchre]

[vlaka]

if you think about this the correct way no one hacked any thing. simply finding a url and typing in a password is not hacking. if i was hacking i'd tare the website apart and get in throught those means. what was done on photo bucket is not hacking.

^{The terms hacker and hack are marked by contrasting positive and negative connotations. Computer programmers often use the words hacking and hacker to express admiration for the work of a skilled software developer (but may also use them in a negative sense to describe the production of inelegant kludges). Some frown upon using hacking as a synonym for security cracking -- in distinct contrast to the larger world, in which the word hacker is typically used to describe someone who "hacks into" a system by evading or disabling security measures.}

does that sound like us? did we disable any security measures? i don't think we did, simply figured out a password...

[Finch]

[Euchre]

[HerOdyssey]

 The hacking

[Drone41279]

If guessing a stupidly placed password is hacking then it deserves to be exposed. However in this case its being encouraged for those involved in the 'ARG' to do what they can to expose the trail which is cloverfield. As such the encouragement which is viral marketing is to blame.

If anyone needs to apologise for anything its the puppet master not the player.

[pegassissy]

At the risk of biring up more turmoil and a sore subject...

[Arkaham]

I understand you taking this personal pegassissy, and I'm as sad as you of seeing so many people thinking it was right, but I think this is way too different from what happened to you.

There was no malicious intent here. They didn't 'hack' to get money or to trick people. They did it to find a monster that'll destroy NYC.

So there's no felony here. They shouldn't had hacked because it wasn't part of the game (as the fixing of PB proved), and we could had spent the last three days chasing wild goose with unrelated pictures. Hell, for all we know there may be a lot of people out there following this without knowing what's an ARG who still try to figure out the fake clues this incident produced.

So... yes. Don't hack. In real life is a felony, in Chaotic Fiction is a game derailing.

[Helo]

Congrats! You guys made it into the asshat hall of fame: http://www.drumwaster.com/index.php/weblog/hackers_suck/

[Arkaham]

While it seems you're on the pessimistic side of the road judging by your blog (BTW, it's your blog?) I can't really blame you. This game really is like you describe it.

But if the original idea attracted you, you shouldn't give up with this one. Like you said, it's more marketing than game, and it's attracted more people than it can manage. Huge games work when a good deal of things happen, so they're kept busy. With all the people on this, and so little happening, you get the endless posts about obvious things, the angry "we know already" replies and the impatience people trying to uncover every little thing we have up to this point.

So don't judge ARG's for this one. That'll be like abandoning horror movies just because 'house of death' was the first one you saw.

[Helo]

[Nighthawk]

[brettoniasam]

In case you hadn't noticed...

[brettoniasam]

Oh, and for the record:

For those of you insinuating that those of us who said it was okay to hack Jamie's PB are ACTUALLY ADVOCATING REAL-WORLD hacking....

...that's like saying a WoW addict actually believes it's okay to don armor and sword and go hacking merrily through the local shopping mall in search of treasure 'n' monsters.

It's FICTION, people. We're participating in a GAME, that's ADVERTISING a *FICTIONAL* MOVIE.

Jeebus.