ForumsThe Tavern[april fools 2011] Moderator to Admin Hack

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caffeine101
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Ian obviously got into the system late last night. Turns out he was more clever than we'd anticipated, and has some code in the system that upgrades all moderators to administrator access level. I've tried reseting their accounts to moderator, even plain user level, but they pop back to admin level status within minutes of the change.

After countless hours of deciphering the obfuscated codebase. we have found the hack, removed it. and we will be deploying it very soon.

Thanks, James

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Asherlee
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James, would he try to create multiple accounts or anything like that?

Last time the site was hacked, some moderators got banned.

caffeine101
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I banned his ip address, and any other aliases I knew of. but it should be fine, since it was at the code level.

ManiacalMind
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That's awful.
So cormyn is gone for good?
And, are all moderators going to remain as an administrator?

caffeine101
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yes and no they will be changed any moment now.

MRWalker82
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Noooooo! I haven't even had enough time to abuse my administrator powers yet and you SOBs are taking them away?!?!
Dang it James, don't make me angry!

ManiacalMind
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Alright, it's a bit hard to look at green writing only throughout a whole thread.

ManiacalMind
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Well, at least all of them have returned to moderators again with their blue texts.

Gantic
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Noooooo! I haven't even had enough time to abuse my administrator powers yet and you SOBs are taking them away?!?!
Dang it James, don't make me angry!


You shoulda just went ahead and perma'd Strop like I did.
delossantosj
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So Beiber is AG's doing, Mods-to-Admins was cormyns doing?

Rekoil
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Rekoil
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that's what the caffeine101 admin guy said

Ghgt99
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YAY! No Darth Voidymort can't kill me!!! =D

ArmorL3gend
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So Beiber is AG's doing, Mods-to-Admins was cormyns doing?


Today they took over Armor Games,

Tommorow the WORLD!!! *Dramatic Music*
Pwnt0r
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Gj on finding the culprit. Boo @ him.

xeano321
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Ian obviously got into the system late last night. Turns out he was more clever than we'd anticipated, and has some code in the system that upgrades all moderators to administrator access level. I've tried reseting their accounts to moderator, even plain user level, but they pop back to admin level status within minutes of the change.

After countless hours of deciphering the obfuscated codebase. we have found the hack, removed it. and we will be deploying it very soon.

Thanks, James


HMMMM... I am having a hard time believing this,

1. Cormyn is the Admin of the Admin, he is pretty much at the top, why would he do that? You didn't give a reason.

2. This is on April 1st (April fools day) could this be a joke?

Oh yeah, and if it is true, banning his IP address is no good, ISP (internet service providers) dont assign one IP to every computer, every time a new session is started, a new IP is assigned. I would find a different way to ban him (if its true)
Ghgt99
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Cormyn is the Admin of the Admin, he is pretty much at the top, why would he do that? You didn't give a reason.


He got fired for exhibiting inappropriate behavior like firing airsoft pellets at John's computer.
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