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Leafhat

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Jan 6, 2009
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Well, this is kind of hilarious actually. What is this? Is it some kind of "If you try to sue us we'll send you a sawed off pigs head"? There are always consequences for improper actions. Perhaps you'll be lucky again, and nothing will happen this time. Perhaps even if that "anonymous site" falls, you'll just group up somewhere else. Someone will still meet the consequences.

You're right, there's probably no way to track every schmuck that decided to humour themselves tonight. And for a lot of people this feels like just a joke, that nobody should take seriously. What happened was a criminal action, despite the bad security, despite the topic of this site. The easiest way to rid of problems like this is to go for the root. Now depending on where 4chan is hosted, there might just be a law saying "Aiding criminals is prohibited and punishable". Then again, who would bother suing a bunch of trolls sitting in their basement watching cartoon porn?
 

Palad1

macrumors 6502a
Feb 24, 2004
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There's always the option of looking at the /admin logs on Macrumorslive.com to get the IPs but really what's the point?

Biggest issue for the admins now is to make sure the site is up and running and do some damage control (ie. making sure all the other parts of the site don't use the same passwords as those that were leaked).

The first 10 seconds of the hijack were pretty fun actually.

Good luck MR admin team, not fun.
 

PowerFullMac

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Oct 16, 2006
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Remember next time: DONT MAKE THE PASSWORD FILE PUBLIC

Sorry if I sound rude here but what did you think would happen if you made the file containing the admin passwords public? It's impossible for you not to get "hacked" doing that, as easy as walking through a open door, or should I say a door with the keys left in the lock, that's more accurate.

Now, to restore my bloody iPhone 3G for the second time this month...
 

Baffles

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May 27, 2008
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Remember next time: DONT MAKE THE PASSWORD FILE PUBLIC

Sorry if I sound rude here but what did you think would happen if you made the file containing the admin passwords public? It's impossible for you not to get "hacked" doing that, as easy as walking through a open door, or should I say a door with the keys left in the lock, that's more accurate.

Now, to restore my bloody iPhone 3G for the second time this month...

More like a door with no lock. There was no password.
 
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