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[Jakkarra]

AAAAAGH!

What the FUCK!

someone has hacked my account!

ive fixed it now, but SHIT! seriously??

[Grimlocke]

*insert many questionmarks here*

Like, why would anyone hack a bay12 forum account, why is that text below your avatar, why is this in suggestions... well whatever. Guess at least 1 person has way too much spare time.

[Christes]

What did the hacker do?

[King_of_the_weasels]

Requested gay porn if I recall

[Dae]

Sounds like a 13 year-old little brother attack to me.

[JohnieRWilkins]

Sounds like you/"HACKER" is a SA goon. I doubt your account got hacked, you're probably really stupid and you gave your password out to someone/used a password similar to one you used somewhere else.

[Winterbrass]

... Taking control of someone's account by figuring out their password is 'cracking'. As in, 'cracking their password'.

Obtaining the person's password through attacking the forum's database is 'hacking'. As in, 'hacking the server'.

This was, quite clearly, not hacking. Only people who shouldn't be permitted to have internet access would call password-cracking 'hacking'.

 

[Phantom]

Hey at least the person didn't do anything to get you tracked down by police.

[Zironic]

Hey at least the person didn't do anything to get you tracked down by police.

That he knows of.

[JoshuaFH]

... Taking control of someone's account by figuring out their password is 'cracking'. As in, 'cracking their password'.

Obtaining the person's password through attacking the forum's database is 'hacking'. As in, 'hacking the server'.

This was, quite clearly, not hacking. Only people who shouldn't be permitted to have internet access would call password-cracking 'hacking'.

 

Little harsh, don't ya say?

[qwertyuiopas]

In either case it should be cracking.

"Hacking" originated, and should mean something completely diffrent.

Keep looking around wikipedia, and you learn that it only started being used where cracking should have been used to describe the activity in the 80s and unfortunately the media stuck with it.

[Jakkarra]

JohnieRWilkins: no, not a goon.

Winterbrass: complete dick

no, i did not give out my password to anyone. and you might think yourself clever Mr. winterbass, deciding that because i may have used the incorrect terminology. i typed that response as something to quickly show that i was pissed. i typed it in a few seconds.

i Know the correct Title for such a person, but at that time i did'nt really care. i had to get rid of what was typed.

Please, please think before being insulting and trying to sound Knowledgeable.

Oh, and my Brother isnt intelligent enough to even USE a forum. let alone Make a topic, and have the attention span to create a topic of that length.

[Cthulhu]

What was the topic?

[Luckk]

I was wondering why you were asking that under the suggestion forum.  It would make sense if it were a cracker though, since I don't think anyone would be that much of an idiot and ask for something like that in there without looking to get modded.

Edit: The topic was him asking for gay porn with a long list of different ways to mean masturbate.

[Zai]

Wow. What's with the inflammatory posts? Don't many Bay12ers pride themselves in thinking that this community is "above" that?

...Upon further inspection, I see that the main "offender" is quite new. If you're going to tell someone they're wrong, it's best to do it in a respectable manner. Though Jakkarra didn't exactly help matters with the "complete dick" comment. =/