Investigation Under Fire

[faded glory]

Originally posted by Drekkus
What's up with Faded Glory's avatar and link in his sig??

Did someone 'Wiglaf' him?

No...


I put that there.


Its supposed to say "Hail Ze Fuhrer Faded Glory!"

more for the PBEM crowd.


But if many people is offended bye it. I will remove it... Its not there to piss anybody off.

[Lefty Scaevola]

If the hacked password was the same as one Wiglaf used at other sites, it could have been obtained by someone with access there.

[Urban Ranger]

If Wiglaf's account was broken into, the most likely answer was he left it open somewhere after he finished using it. One of his friends felt like pulling a joke on him.

[Lefty Scaevola]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger
If Wiglaf's account was broken into, the most likely answer was he left it open somewhere after he finished using it. One of his friends felt like pulling a joke on him.

This requires the absurd predicate that he has a friend.

[Ming]

Originally posted by Lefty Scaevola
If the hacked password was the same as one Wiglaf used at other sites, it could have been obtained by someone with access there.

Don't smart people use different passwords for different sites

[MichaeltheGreat]

Ming - how would THAT be relevant?

[MichaeltheGreat]

Originally posted by Chowlett


Oh yes - don't count these two posts. They've come from a computer room computer, and so wouldn't have my IP. Almost all posts of the last two years (in term time at least) will have come from the static-IP'd computer, and that's what I'm intereted in.

Your uni IP's come through several different DHCP servers. Probably you have a static <i>internal</i> (to the uni network) IP, then go through a router, then back to a server cluster which passes your internet traffic to whichever externally connected server has the least load at the moment.

[faded glory]

well thats how its done!

Your uni IP's come through several different DHCP servers. Probably you have a static internal (to the uni network) IP, then go through a router, then back to a server cluster which passes your internet traffic to whichever externally connected server has the least load at the moment.

So thats how your tracking IP

[Dauphin]

Originally posted by MichaeltheGreat
Ming - how would THAT be relevant?

Literally

For the record I use different passwords for different sites. Unfortunately I only remember the passwords, and not which password goes with which site.

[loinburger]

"Password" works as the best universal password, I've found. It's easy to remember. However, I'd recommend to Wiglaf that he no longer use it as his password; he ought to try "Password1" or something else instead.

[Chris 62]

Is this a continuation of that other thing, him claiming someone changed his avatar and such?

This investigation seems as likely as Captain Qweeg's Strawberrys one.

[Lefty Scaevola]

But as you recall, The strawberries were stolen, Just not by anyone Queeg suspected.

[rev]

Hey Wiglaf, in case I missed something (and I probably did): how did you know the exact time that the hacker compromised your account? (You posted said time in the 'flagship' thread).

[ColdWizard]

no, i'm not an Enron Executive

Originally posted by Wiglaf
who has an AOL account

i choose to exercise my rights as stated in the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution

posts in the OT

i choose to exercise my rights as stated in the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution

especially on the night of 02-02-02.

i have no recollection of the night in question

[Wiglaf]

And while it maybe within your rights to ask, are you really that stupid to think the guilty one will actually respond truthfully.

Quite wrong, ming. In the same way that international terrorist groups loudly confess to their crimes against humanity, an apolyton hacker would love people to know he's the one who did it, regardless of how stupid it would appear to you.

I think Wiglaf is a DL. Nobody could be that dumb. Strong EVC overtones here. And Wiglaf appeared when EVC lost impact

I'd like the mods to respond to that and clarify matters for our friend Horsie over here.

Seeing as he is intent on blaming Brits for it (he said so himself), I would like to point out that I connect via the university Lan, with a static IP (at least, I think it is. I'd actually be interested to know whether you get my static IP or the IP of some gateway I'm passing through. Ming? MtG?)

When did I claim I was intent on blaming the Brits?

Has anyone who is "believeable" ever had their Poly account(s) hacked?

I appreciate that. Where were you on February 2?

If Wiglaf's account was broken into, the most likely answer was he left it open somewhere after he finished using it. One of his friends felt like pulling a joke on him.

Hm. It's a possibility, as I was off (as in away from) the computer both ten to twenty minutes before the "incident" and a little while into it (after 'flagship' thread). Still not likely enough though, as I somehow doubt anyone could download, resize and upload an avatar like that in only three minutes.

This requires the absurd predicate that he has a friend.

I'm not even gonna respond to that.

Hey Wiglaf, in case I missed something (and I probably did): how did you know the exact time that the hacker compromised your account? (You posted said time in the 'flagship' thread).

It's the exact date of my first post in the Moderators thread (02-02-02 11:03EST), which is as close I can get. I guess I should have asked for the time I realized the hack, but oh well. Not much of a difference.