My theory on Old Thread Bumps and How it happened...
Alot of us already know that password selection is important to the security of our identities. Choosing an easy to guess password can result in our accounts being compromised by unscrupulous keyboard warriors. Below is a list of the top 10 most common passwords:
god
love
lust
money
private
qwerty
secret
sex
snoopy
password
If you currently use any of these, or maybe you use something that is fairly simple to guess, you may want to consider changing it to something more difficult to hack.
I recommend selecting a password that is at least 6 characters, that contains alpha and numeric characters.
Here's a scenerio that may be how the recent "Lensman is a hypocrite" old thread bumps have occured.
If I were to write a "loginbot", which plugs a list of usernames into the login form, along with common passwords, after a short time I could have it return a list of valid logins.
for($threadid=1; $threadid <= 1000; $threadid++) { FUNCTION }
From there, I can have another bot start posting to old threads based on their $threadid, since most threads are in sequential order, unless they have been deleted by moderation.
Let's use some common sense with this.
god
love
lust
money
private
qwerty
secret
sex
snoopy
password
If you currently use any of these, or maybe you use something that is fairly simple to guess, you may want to consider changing it to something more difficult to hack.
I recommend selecting a password that is at least 6 characters, that contains alpha and numeric characters.
Here's a scenerio that may be how the recent "Lensman is a hypocrite" old thread bumps have occured.
If I were to write a "loginbot", which plugs a list of usernames into the login form, along with common passwords, after a short time I could have it return a list of valid logins.
for($threadid=1; $threadid <= 1000; $threadid++) { FUNCTION }
From there, I can have another bot start posting to old threads based on their $threadid, since most threads are in sequential order, unless they have been deleted by moderation.
Let's use some common sense with this.
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