They were clearly the type that get beat up a lot and stuffed in lockers in high school. They lash out online because it's the only voice they have. It's a sad way to live, but I think most people grow out of it (save for a couple of grown-up tools in the enthusiast community).
Jeff - Editor - CoasterBuzz.com - My Blog
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I got a very Nasty PM from one of these people. Sigh.
coasterqueenTRN said:
Somebodys' parents are going to be pissed today. ;-)
quote]The BEST revenge may be living well, but watching that kid explain this to his parents, that's GOT to be a close second...*feeling especially evil today*....;)
1 Jeff can you look into the ban notice some of us are getting?
2 How are their parents going to even find out? Was that traceable?
3 How could that one kid post all those "historical facts"so quickly? For those who didn't see the mess one kid was post bio's of different people and they were a page long.
4 Is Cedar Point running out of space cause they should have plenty once Magnum finishes sinking. Just kidding.
2. First of all, you're not really anonymous on the Internet, and a couple if these idiots registered with AOL accounts. Between the two, it's pretty easy to trace it, and AOL's abuse department is generally more likely to do something for you when you have that much info. Even if they used Hotmail addreses, it's still easy to match the IP with the time they were logged in. ISP's keep all of that info. Another kid had a Verizon DSL address, which is fun because not only can you trace back to the customer (and potentially hack their machine if it isn't secure), but some of the host names actually have the town they live in.
3. You can use automation programs to attack a site. There's not much you can do about that, it's just something you deal with. I used one to test the performance of the site before deploying it. I created hundreds of user accounts and made thousands of posts in a relatively short time in my tests.
4. Dragster is propping Magnum back up, so it's all good.
Jeff - Editor - CoasterBuzz.com - My Blog
I thought the weight of Wicked Twister at the otehr end of the beach was what was stopping Magnum from sinking. Hmm, learn something new everyday I guess!
jimmybob - late to the party as usual...
Hobbes: "What's the point of attaching a number to everything you do?"
Calvin: "If your numbers go up, it means you're having more fun."
The Flying Turns makes all the right people wet - Gonch
at least all is well again.
To give a quick summary for people who didn't realize how traceable your online activities are:
Every computer connected to the internet has an Internet Protocol (IP) address assigned. This is (currently) a 32-bit number that's usually written out as a quad-dot notation (for example, 192.168.1.1 -- each number is 0-255, which is 8 bits. 8 bits * 4 = 32 bits). Some computers are assigned the same address at all times, others are dynamically assigned an address from a pool when they connect to the internet. In many cases, a group of computers shares the same public IP address through address translation (NAT).
Every time you access this, or any other site, your computer's public IP address and the time are logged. Every time you connect to your service provider, they log the address that's assigned to your computer (if it isn't already static).
Between those logs, it's a very simple matter to report abuse (which is exactly why hacking back isn't a good idea).
Now, for the people who are having some problems, what's happening is that part of the steps Jeff took last night to shut the problem down was to ban a range of AOL addresses (see "assigned from a pool", above). Unfortunately, even innocent users who try to connect and end up with an address from that pool will be unable to connect to CB.
*** Edited 12/8/2003 2:34:14 AM UTC by GregLeg***
--Greg
"You seem healthy. So much for voodoo."
SFDL_Dude said:
basically there was (i think around 23 pages before i finally refreshed and they were gone) worth of spam messages repeated over and over and over.... stupid kids. at least you didn't get pissed off by it! I was just saying to myself, ohhhh no jeff is gonna freak out :-P...at least all is well again.
Adding to this , they were also making offensive jokes. Plus it was 36 pages when the dust finally cleared.
Just immature teens with a sad knowledge of the world....
SFDL_Dude said:
at least you didn't get pissed off by it! I was just saying to myself, ohhhh no jeff is gonna freak out.
I think you grossly overestimate how much something like that bothers me (that's the mistake the kiddies made).
Jeff - Editor - CoasterBuzz.com - My Blog
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