HUZZAH! Banned from Rentech.com!
J. M. Pescado:
Quote from: Inge on 2005 July 30, 15:49:30
I would just like to point out - and I have to risk this looking like I am taking sides - that at VS there is no statement naming Pescado as the person who is suspected of trying to hack the system. If people have drawn that conclusion it is far more likely to be as a result of reading *this* thread on MATY than anything they might have read at VS.
It's hardly difficult to reach this conclusion when you observe the previous patterns: The first "hacker scare" began shortly after I left: Front page news, "Hackers may have stolen your password! Everyone must change their password if they joined prior to 07/10!" Conveniently, the date the hacker scare began coincides precisely with when I left, and the date given as the "compromised" date conveniently happens to be the day of the security lockdown when my server access was sacked. The obvious implication was the fact that I was in possession of a DB backup from that time (despite the fact that passwords cannot be extracted from a DB backup by any means short of brute-force cracking). I wasn't the first to reach this conclusion: In fact, I was only made aware of it when somebody pointed it out, after which I immediately drew the same conclusion.
The second "hacker scare" began, coincidentally after I had been quietly banned from the site for no particularly obvious reason. At that point, of course, I created a quickie account routing through another proxy server instead of my usual one, and sent out a few quiet PMs to individuals not including Rentech. Unsurprisingly, the next day, that account had been deleted, the practice of mandatory email verification was instituted, and the "hacker scare" message was posted as front page news.
Coincidence or cover-up? I'll let you decide.
Inge:
I'm not saying your conclusion was necessarily wrong, but I'm not sure of your motives in trying to make sure everyone else knew about it? Wouldn't it have been good style, and better for the community, to simply go about setting up your new (and very nice) site in dignified peace?
J. M. Pescado:
Quote from: Inge on 2005 July 30, 16:45:44
I'm not saying your conclusion was necessarily wrong, but I'm not sure of your motives in trying to make sure everyone else knew about it? Wouldn't it have been good style, and better for the community, to simply go about setting up your new (and very nice) site in dignified peace?
Well, that was sort of the original plan. Then Rentech went and banned me for no apparently good reason. That's always fun. But hey, like I said, I'm willing to go back to getting along anytime she's willing to stop with the nonsense. After all, I haven't actually done anything in response, like, oh, say, blowing up the site in a big fiery ball that is visible from space or anything.
Liss:
I think the "durrrrr" was probably supposed to come across as "duh." How literate do you have to be to spell "duh?" sheesh.
jrd:
Feh. Petty politics.
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