How many times did you clear your cookies thinking you were banned?

**Hotrocket** · 07-21-2006, 01:40 PM

never crossed my mind...

why would you worry about being banned?
what bad things have you done?...feeling guilty? lol

**Head_Hunter** · 07-21-2006, 01:41 PM

haha i did the same thing ...

**Nookster** · 07-21-2006, 01:43 PM

never thought about that. noticed it not responding so all i did was sniffed the servers and noticed them down so I just went back to work.

**Rolo** · 07-21-2006, 02:05 PM

Another adult webmaster board did this 2-3 months ago.

First they installed the "Miserable" hack:

Originally posted by vbulletin.org

This hack is an alternative to banning a user. As the name suggests a user who gets hit with this hack will become truly miserable while trying to access your board.

So here is what really happens to a miserable user:

- There is a random 60-120 second delay each time they click on a link.
- 90% of times they have no search engine acccess.
- 75% of the times they get the server too busy error.

If they don't get the server too busy error:
- 50% of the times they may get a blank page
- 30% of the times they may get forwarded to the forum main page
- 20% of the time they may be able to see the page they asked for.

after doing all the math in actuality they have only a 5% chance of seeing the page they clicked on. What kills them is the time they have to wait before anything happens.

Then they were sneaky, and found out how to sniff the password of their users:

Originally posted by vbulletin.org

whatever the reason to save password in MD5 format is, it's true that you and your mods cant read them inside your cp. No way unless you alter your database and save the unencrypted version of the password in a new field whenever it's updated..

Lastly they went on an ego trip, and not only put one of their users on the "Miserable" list, but also misused his password from their board to hijack his GFY account... that user was me last friday

However I´m kinda flattered that they did all of this, just to try and get me banned on GFY. What an honor

**cyberstar** · 07-21-2006, 02:57 PM

Originally posted by Rolo

Another adult webmaster board did this 2-3 months ago.
.....

Now you MUST give us a hit of which board it was!..

**Scott McD** · 07-21-2006, 02:58 PM

None...

**Michael O** · 07-21-2006, 03:02 PM

I wasn't worried until I saw this:

**MarkMan** · 07-21-2006, 03:12 PM

lol

**soulbleed** · 07-21-2006, 03:17 PM

zero times

**Rolo** · 07-21-2006, 03:56 PM

Originally posted by cyberstar

Now you MUST give us a hit of which board it was!..

Nah - no reason to give them free promotion - also that place have alot of history, before the current owners took over. I will not piss on its memory or the few good guys still posting there. It should just RIP - Rest In Peace.

However that doesn´t mean, that the people who misued the information I entrusted them with, will walk free...

Which reminds me, anyone who realize what board I´m talking about, should probably update their passwords, since the new owners have sniffed the current ones

**Furious_Male** · 07-21-2006, 05:10 PM

Didn't even give it a thought. Glad to see its up and running again though.

**Spunky** · 07-21-2006, 05:14 PM

I was sweating my bag off for the man all day..I didn't notice

**Kimo** · 07-21-2006, 06:26 PM

i actually got work done, thats for sure lol

How many times did you clear your cookies thinking you were banned?

How many times did you clear your cookies thinking you were banned?

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