For yuks, look here:


What were they thinking when they allowed 500-character article titles?

Hopefully nobody here will be careless enough to click on a nimp.org link!

We're talkin' goatse, malware, pornographic Quicktime movies that can't be stopped without doing an end-task on the browser, the whole nine yards.

And exactly how do know this Somey

I wonder how chrome would handle that.

Cuz we've all been there, done that. The scariest part is not knowing for a few seconds if rebooting your computer is actually going to fix it. So then you think you're going to have to go to nerd tech support to get the thing removed, and THEY see it...

Very embarassing case of computer clap.

Yes it happened to me, it's no shame to know it. I thought it had killed my PC, ED didn't care either, they just said, 'ha, that's an old one'.

Though I'm not tech support, I'm the geek up at Level 4 or so that see's the stuff that percolates on up. We usually embarrass the [l]user to death first then explain it's all Bill Gates' fault.

I remember one time about 2000 or so youngest daughter wanted to show ma & me an email. At the time she had a hotmail account but typed in hotmale instead. Yowza She hit the poweroff button. I still kid her about that

I'm a fancy-schmancy software engineer who works for a Certain Company, and is supposed to know these things by nature, etc.

Yeah, I was caught bigtime, and ... ummm ... relatively recently too

nothing happened to me

i took the precaution of blocking all images before too haha

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/1865

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/722

everything except firefox sucks clearly!

Very well - it opened a bunch of tabs but that's it. Chrome closed no problem, didn't have to reboot or anything.

I thought about this certain company and WP, not long ago. They're now running this commercial where IBM-guy is dressed in kingly robes with sceptre, and he's explaining to cool-MacStudent guy that it doesn't matter if Macs are better, that he's the king of the domain because it's just too hard for subjects to leave. Following which, Mac-guy politely explains that it's easy to leave-- just take your PC into the iStore and the nice nerds there will port all your files over to the Mac you just bought. Following which, IBM-god-king says:

"I banish you. You're bannished"

And I thought: "JIMBO!" They got it just right.


MR

PS: I see AAPL is down again, but then so is every tech stock. Turns out when major banks are collapsing and people need to buy groceries and pay mortgage, they really will quit buying new computers and iGizmos. Who'd a thunk it?

I got hit a couple months or so ago by SQLDb. He posted the link in chan and I'd not seen it before. So I clicked to see what Grawp was up to... bad times. Haha. There's was some music playing, couldn't quite make out what the words were, but one was clear (start with n and ends in r). And it opened like 50 windows. I did an end task and all was good. Luckily no virus.

Speaking of which, the discussion at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Red...ussion#Nimp.org is kinda sad. Deleting that redirect will cause curious readers to either click the link (bad!) or ask urban dictionary.

Speaking of Grawp, he and his buds really hammered Werdna's wiki tonight.

They've pretty-much trashed the place It's like leaving your back door open when you're away and having a troupe of howler monkeys come visit.

Basically, he's de-sysopped everyone, gained global steward rights, checkusered everyone (got my IP address, dammit. Ah well, here's another) and has free rein of the place. Werdna's going to have to shell in, lock the db and do a restore.

It looks like Werdna had a separate wiki attached to it and had left default accounts wide-open allowing steward access to anyone. Grawp logs in and pwns it. Simultaneously impressive and a frickin' nuisance. I'd just cleaned up the earlier mess - ah, well

Hey Castle Rock, how was it for you?

AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH! GIANT WANGS! It's Pre-2006 Wikipedia all over again!

Do I take it that Grawp is now targeting more vulnerable wikis now that the Wikipedia devs and admins are keeping him at bay?

Pretty-much, yeah. He has to get his jollies elsewhere (such as visiting Emperor's ickle wiki )

Werdna's wiki was only a test installation and werdna hadn't even done the basics, such as prot the mainpage, etc. Scrunch it up and start again - no big deal.

This is hilarious stuff. Made himself all kinds of steward, got your IPs, globally blocked them all?

http://wiki.epstone.net/test/view/Special:RecentChanges

The reminds me of the Marx bothers screwing up Freedonia.

Heh - well, yeah It's epic win night for Grawp and pals, no doubt about that. Hats off time ...

How long before Grawp goes after Jimbo's page?

While mild lulz, what's "epic" about taking over a completely unprotected wiki?

It's like all the gripes people put on wikipedia about "omg someone haked ur sight, they edited an article!"

(User rights log); 04:12 . . Castle Rock (Talk | contribs) changed group membership for User:Alison from abusefilter and Sysops to (none) (You're not the boss of me now)



Because it was the Wiki dedicated to pioneering anti-Grawp systems.

I hate to ask this, but has Wikia fallen to Grawp or do their devs actually have a strong defense system?

Dammit - pwnt Alison de-sysop'd by Lateral. I'm guessing that will be all over ED by the morning.

Thing is, it's just a scratch wiki. Lather - rinse - repeat. It's not like any damage to anything has been done. If Werdna configs things properly next time, it should be reasonably secure, etc. Then, visits from Grawp, etc would actually be to his advantage, honeypot-style. I think the problem was that Werdna installed the two wikis out of the box, linked them but never locked one of them down.

Just a pesky combination of a MediaWiki bug amplified by PHP sucking, and a minor misconfiguration on my end, meaning that one of my wikis had Special:Userrights available to everyone. Oops. I've cleaned it all up, though. Only damage was on a 1-year-old wiki that I don't care about, and a 1-month-old wiki that I also don't care about. There were plenty of good things that he should really have done instead on the two private wikis there.

Shush now! Don't give him ideas.

I suggest also that you switch off anon editing for now and enable authenticated account creation only.

Lather. Rinse. Repeat.

Say, and that might work for Wikipedia, too!

Flash moment of stark insight.

pretty pathetic. ByAppointmentTo and Grawp. Congrats, you hacked a wiki that no one cares about. Go blow each other to celebrate. These beings are wasting oxygen.