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Why would anyone hack a forum for sick people?

AreaCode707

AreaCode707

Lifer
I lurk reguarly on an arthritis forum (yes, I have arthritis - no, you don't have to be 100+ years old to have it.)

Some Turkish punks hacked this board full of semi-computer literate sick people. Just plain stupid. :| Text
 
because it's easy, people don't care what the site is or who posts there, it's an easy target and will get taken down.

such is the mentality of the script kiddiot
 
Because it had an easily exploitable security flaw, and therefore made an easy target. The Turks that hacked it may not have even been able to read the content (which I assume was in English) and figure out what the content of the site was.

These people are interested in getting thier names out any way they can.
 
Originally posted by: Amol
Some people in the world . . .

hope you guys get it resolved
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I don't really have much to do with the forum, and I really can't help, but it's been weeks now and they haven't been able to get back up and running. It sucks. It's the only place some of these people have to go for any understanding of the pain they deal with every day. Nobody else wants to hear about the trouble they have opening jars or going down stairs... the internet is the only place where they've really got community and sympathy, something you can sorely need when you've got a disease like this.

Why do little arrogant punks feel like they've pulled off something great by exploiting vulnerabilities on sites that are run by people who can barely turn their computers on in the first place?
 
Originally posted by: CorporateRecreation
because it's easy, people don't care what the site is or who posts there, it's an easy target and will get taken down.

such is the mentality of the script kiddiot
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BUT i7 WAS H411ARyOS!
 
Originally posted by: HotChic
Originally posted by: Amol
Some people in the world . . .

hope you guys get it resolved
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I don't really have much to do with the forum, and I really can't help, but it's been weeks now and they haven't been able to get back up and running. It sucks. It's the only place some of these people have to go for any understanding of the pain they deal with every day. Nobody else wants to hear about the trouble they have opening jars or going down stairs... the internet is the only place where they've really got community and sympathy, something you can sorely need when you've got a disease like this.

Why do little arrogant punks feel like they've pulled off something great by exploiting vulnerabilities on sites that are run by people who can barely turn their computers on in the first place?
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You're making the mistake of bringing the subject of the board into question. It could be basket-weaving to cancer, it doesn't matter they don't care either way what it is. Don't think of it in terms of the visitors and chalk it up to using sh!tty software, better luck next time.
 
Originally posted by: Aimster
www.anadoluhackers.com

I bet they had no idea what they hacked.
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Does anybody write Turkish enough to email them and tell them how frigging stupid they were to take out a site like that? :| Not like they'd care in a million years, but at least to take the wind out of their sails for thinking they did something so incredible?
 
Originally posted by: CorporateRecreation
Originally posted by: HotChic
Originally posted by: Amol
Some people in the world . . .

hope you guys get it resolved
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I don't really have much to do with the forum, and I really can't help, but it's been weeks now and they haven't been able to get back up and running. It sucks. It's the only place some of these people have to go for any understanding of the pain they deal with every day. Nobody else wants to hear about the trouble they have opening jars or going down stairs... the internet is the only place where they've really got community and sympathy, something you can sorely need when you've got a disease like this.

Why do little arrogant punks feel like they've pulled off something great by exploiting vulnerabilities on sites that are run by people who can barely turn their computers on in the first place?
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You're making the mistake of bringing the subject of the board into question. It could be basket-weaving to cancer, it doesn't matter they don't care either way what it is. Don't think of it in terms of the visitors and chalk it up to using sh!tty software, better luck next time.
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As cited before, bunch of barely-literate computer adults. They're not going to know the first place to start to build a secure site.
 
I thought that you had to be 100 to get arthritis?

JK, im 22 and already have problems.. I know that we've both posted this problem before. I wanna get all the joints in both hands replaced.. some day.
 
Originally posted by: RossMAN
I hope the forum admins keep regular backups of their database 🙁
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One month later and they haven't even fixed their links. They thought they were the bees' knees when they "upgraded" to phpBB 2.0. Not an ice cube's chance in hell they had stuff backed up.
 
Originally posted by: TallBill
I thought that you had to be 100 to get arthritis?

JK, im 22 and already have problems.. I know that we've both posted this problem before. I wanna get all the joints in both hands replaced.. some day.
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i know what you mean. i turn 23 in 2 weks and some of the joints in my hands forbid me to clench a fist sometimes. same goes fo my shoulders. can't ift my arm above my head some days. damn manual labor
 
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