geekhack hacked again!?

ripster

30 Apr 2012, 15:38

My Hotmail account was hacked into and spambotted the universe so it was closed. GH or any of the other numerous sites I use that dummy mail account for? I will never know.

What's ironic is my backup recovery email address was ******@msn.com. Screw that. Easier to just open up a new throwaway hotmail address.

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webwit
Wild Duck

30 Apr 2012, 16:09

Just when I thought you were going to send me 50m dollar AND viagra.

Next time use a better password than "nickel".

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7bit

06 May 2012, 20:21

Geekhack is dead!

This time it seems to be forever!

:cry:

ripster

06 May 2012, 20:52

My theory it was your 100K post GB4 thread.

Vbulletin Buffer Overflow.

mintberryminuscrunch

06 May 2012, 21:02

The US government took it down to reduce the household deficit spending

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7bit

06 May 2012, 21:21

ripster wrote:My theory it was your 100K post GB4 thread.

Vbulletin Buffer Overflow.
No, can't be, because Round 3 had still more posts.

But maybe it is the mailbox of 7bit_R4 that caused the problem.

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7bit

06 May 2012, 21:22

mintberryminuscrunch wrote:The US government took it down to reduce the household deficit spending
This would be stupid. The key caps are produced in the US and many participants of Round 4 are from outa space.

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dirge

06 May 2012, 21:22

Any clue what's going on? It's down quite often.

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Brian8bit

06 May 2012, 21:41

dirge wrote:Any clue what's going on? It's down quite often.
Because of the domain name, it's regularly targeted for DDoS and SQL injections by hackers looking to bump their portfolio.

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Daemon Raccoon

06 May 2012, 21:56

Because it runs vBulletin and is consistently hit by drive-by exploits.

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webwit
Wild Duck

06 May 2012, 22:15

It is down because of weekly maintenance.

^ Dutch humor

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7bit

06 May 2012, 22:28

And because it is already Monday morning in China, we know that they outsourced the maintenance to cut down costs.

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Game Theory
Mr. Despair

06 May 2012, 23:02

iMav wanted to change the setup with a new drive for faster loads, so maybe its related. <- for optimists

fstop

06 May 2012, 23:45

Would be nice if he let us know about scheduled and intentional maintenance :roll:

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7bit

07 May 2012, 00:09

fstop wrote:Would be nice if he let us know about scheduled and intentional maintenance :roll:
Why should he tell people from a foreign website that his own website will crash in about every minute?

Also, it does not really look like maintenance. More like there was never any ... any .. what was the name of that forum?

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guilleguillaume

07 May 2012, 02:17

This is horrible.

A lof of GB that are run on Geekhack are going to be compromised and I'm worried about the wooden Filco case GB that was open Yesterday that may be deleted and the PM as well :|

Every week happens the same.

ped

07 May 2012, 02:51

GeekHack is online once more, with rollback and all. Seems that the latest backup was made on Friday.

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webwit
Wild Duck

07 May 2012, 02:57

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guilleguillaume

07 May 2012, 03:05

webwit wrote:[funny pic]
It's really funny indeed and actually true :lol:

I've recommended Gothic860 to move his GB over here because he is located in Europe. Here things are really safe and he won't lose any info.

Have to be a pain in the ass to run your first GB and get your content deleted. I hope he has a back up of his thread and orders.

ped

07 May 2012, 03:10

guilleguillaume wrote: I've recommended Gothic860 to move his GB over here because he is located in Europe. Here things are really safe and he won't lose any info.

Have to be a pain in the ass to run your first GB and get your content deleted. I hope he has a back up of his thread and orders.
If you're referring to the thread I think you're referring to, the keyboard case he made looked absolutely amazing! Too bad he's only doing Filco Tenkeyless clones for now. I guess he needs to start somewhere though, so it's okay. Maybe he'll get into the whole split ergo stuff and want to make a case for that. :D

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The_Ed
Asperger's... SQUIRREL!

07 May 2012, 03:24

I bet the hacker looked like this as a child

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ripster

10 May 2012, 08:38

Dude, your pics suck.

I'm no HTML whiz but
502 Bad Gateway
The server was acting as a gateway or proxy and received an invalid response from the upstream server.[2]
Can't be good.

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Glissant

10 May 2012, 14:33

I think no error message might be worse?

It's almost exciting to see how many days we will roll back this time.

Anyone want to start a pool?

ripster

10 May 2012, 14:42

Backed up my RipOruster Wiki JUST in time last night.

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7bit

10 May 2012, 14:44

I knew it will happen again!
ripster wrote:Backed up my RipOruster Wiki JUST in time last night.
You should put all of it into the Deskthority wiki. It is much safer and more usable.

Also, you might win something in the Wiki contest!

feng

10 May 2012, 14:45

NOOOOOOOOO more rollback please! Can't handle it. :cry:

ripster

10 May 2012, 14:47

I was busy backing up my current ones and chatting with moderators.

GH has the chattiest moderators of ANY forum I've ever been on. Do this. Don't do that. I'm back in High School ( which I suspect some of the mods there are still attending).
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mkawa

10 May 2012, 14:48

hardware replacement is happening today. hopefully this instability will be over soon.

ripster

10 May 2012, 14:49

See.

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dirge

10 May 2012, 15:01

I don't understand the need for rolling the data back.

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