Debunking Y2K site owner says he's been hacked

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1403. What happened to the Debunking Y2K forum?, Aug 22, 20:53 2. Can anyone get into debunki yet? by Buddy, Aug 24, 10:14

1. I was just able to get in. by Patricia, Aug 24, 10:22

(_ I still can't get there. Tried cpr's link below too. by Buddy, Aug 24, 10:27

(_ Buddy -- I think I figured it out from my end anyway. by Patricia, Aug 24, 11:10

1. Try harder: www.InsideTheWeb.com/messageboard/mbs.cgi?acct=mb237006&TL=935210798 by cpr, Aug 23, 15:42

3. Still problematic by Dirt Road, Aug 24, 16:30

2. Can't get in Debunker, Aug 24, 16:09

1. We've been hacked! by Doc Paulie, Aug 24, 00:25

1. I can hit it just fine, heres the URL I use: by Jon, Aug 24, 12:45

2. Can not get it by Cherri, Aug 25, 00:56

1. Not to worry, ITW tells me they have the , Aug 24, 13:00

-- Troll- (watching@the.bridge), August 25, 1999

Answers

BBBBWWWAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

-- Porky (Porky@in.cellblockD), August 25, 1999.

Gee, looks like it was discovered on Aug 22. GPS rollover problem, maybe?

-- King of Spain (madrid@aol.com), August 25, 1999.

ROTFLMAO!!!!!

-- ROTFLMAO (ROTFLMAO@ROTFLMAOOOO.com), August 25, 1999.

Wow, talk about obsessed little children! You people are so insecure in your visions of Doom that you hang on every word the Pollys utter. Well, don't worry....just because the Debunki forum is temporarily out, that doesn't mean we don't all still have a big laugh at your expense. It just means there's one less forum for us to talk about it for the time being. : )

-- Reality Check (you@aremisguided.com), August 25, 1999.

Stop! Stop! you're killing me! BBBBWWWAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

-- Porky (Porky@in.cellblockD), August 25, 1999.


Maybe it's the syphilis! BBBBWWWAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

-- Porky (Porky@in.cellblockD), August 25, 1999.

Porky: ROTFLMAO!!!!

-- a (a@a.a), August 25, 1999.

Syphilis cases linked to Debunking Y2K chat room

DALLAS, Aug 24 (Reuters) -- Health officials in Dallas tracking an outbreak of syphilis have discovered that the cases have a cyberspace connection: an Internet chat room.

Jeffrey Klausner, director of the sexually transmitted disease unit at the Dallas Department of Health, said that investigators quizzing the last seven homosexual men reporting syphilis infections were surprised to find that all seven found their most recent sexual contacts through a chat room on the InsideTheWeb bulliten board called Debunking Y2K.

``The challenge for us has been to contact, notify and inform individuals (when) we only have their Internet screen handles,'' Klausner said on Monday.

InsideTheWeb declined to alter its privacy policy and reveal the identities of the chat room regulars, but it did put Klausner in touch with PlanetOut, an online gay and lesbian community.

``The health department did contact us looking for advice on how to use the online medium to deal with this public health issue,'' said Rich D'Amato, a InsideTheWeb spokesman.

PlanetOut staff spent 2 weeks visiting the chat room and warning users about the outbreak, urging them to take syphilis tests and to practice safe sex.

While the chatters' anonymity has been protected, officials hope that they have got the message. Klausner said that the experience has been an eye-opener, and that future public health campaigns would certainly take into account the growing role that the Internet plays in human relationships.

``We've learned that Internet contacts on that forum are an important sexual network,'' he told the Dallas Examiner on Monday, "I guess folks don't call it the deBuggery for nothing."

-- Don't drop the soap while you're over there (@ .), August 25, 1999.


man, I hate incontinence... LOFL

-- lisa (lisa@work.now), August 25, 1999.

Advance preview of the Y2K blame game? If Debunki is having problems because of TelCo, GPS rollover, Y2K remediation (heaven forfend!)or it's just one of those computer problems that happen all the time now but they're fixed quickly (per Stephen Poole)---whoyagonnablame? Those Super Hackers at TB2000!!! You know, those computer illiterates who don't have enough technical knowledge to even discuss Y2K!

Does anyone else think Doc "We've been hacked!" Paulie sounds like an alarmist? You know, one of those poor souls who believes that Doomer Hackers are responsible for every technology glitch? (Especially those Doomer Hackers who are actually alien reptiles?) Run! Run like the wind! The Sky is Falling!!!!!

Seriously, I hate hacking more than I dislike the DeBonker's Crew. Hope they bother to get their facts straight rather than taking misguided retaliatory action against Greenspun.

-- Chicken Dearest (blame@forthebirds.com), August 25, 1999.



From the date/time stamps on the BFI posts it appears that it was at least 24 hours before someone from TB2K noticed the Bonkers site was down. Reality Check posted here almost immediately. So much for the "obsessed little children" who "hang on every word the pollys utter."

I hope Bonkers wasn't hacked but, if it was, I very much hope it wasn't anyone from this forum. We do not need to stoop to that level. I would say it's "dirty pool" but someone might misinterpret that remark.

-- Old Git (anon@spamproblems.com), August 25, 1999.


Since hacking is a federal offense, and I am sure InsideTheWeb appreciates it so much, you can be sure the culprit will be found out. Server logs, and a few phone calls to various ISPs is all it takes.

I don't think anyone here has the brainpower to do this (but certainly the lack of morals and integrity).

It will be a good laugh when the perp gets caught. Doomers are so insecure in their y2k belief/religion they just can't stand all the failed predictions of their high priests of y2k.

You better get some reality before next year or who knows what you extremists might do. I shudder when I think of the possibilities.

-- Doomers Caught (with their h@nd in.thecookiejar), August 25, 1999.


Don't preach to ME about Federal Offenses

-- Porky (Porky@in.cellblockD), August 25, 1999.

Hey Doomers Caught - you think the Feds are gonna waste their time tracking down the "perp" that crashed the DebunkOver? Or what, FannyBubbles will let em have it?

BAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAH

-- I can't stop laughing (@ .), August 25, 1999.


Hey, "Doomers Caught" Submit your evidence that Debonkers was hacked. I see no reason to think that. Sounds like you're an alarmist, like Doc Paulie. Until, and unless, you can show a single objective and verifiable source for such allegations, your conspiracy theory is extremist drivel (wanna borrow my tinfoil hat?), and you are spreading FUD (Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt), just as you take such delight in accusing TB2000 of doing!

Then you say, "I don't think anyone here has the brainpower to do this..." Which way do you want to have it, hypocrite?

-- Chicken Dearest (blame@forthebirds.com), August 25, 1999.



Chicken Asswipe,

Perhaps "doomers caught" is mearly trying to mimic the anal retentive blather that passes for logic or reasoning here at StrokeMom2000.

You, dear sir/madam should learn SATIRE. it is also known as humor.

(because you will NOT understand the above sentence, I will attempt an explaination. NOWHERE in his/her post did "doomer caught" say someone from "here" did any hacking. In fact the second paragraph clearly demonstrates the poster does NOT believe anyone here possesses the technical skills to do such a thing [I agree], but said poster DOES believe you lack the basic moral/ethical structure to *HAVE DONE* the dirty deed [again, I agree]. There IS a distinction. It is lost on one such as yourself.)

Perhaps you should chew your tinfoil hat. You may pick up radio waves through your fillings that will warn us all of an impending invasion from Luxomburg(sp)

-- "doomers funny". "ugh" (hah@hah.hah), August 25, 1999.


Karma strikes in strange and wonderful ways.......

-- ha (ha@ha.ha), August 25, 1999.

The former inhabitants really can't get in. Now's your chance to - say something over there.

-- lisa (lisa@work.now), August 25, 1999.

"doomers funny",

Because you are in dire need of remedial English, I provide the following:

mearly = merely
explaination = explanation
Luxomburg = Luxemburg or Luxembourg

Also, your sentence which includes "...poster does believe you lack the basic moral/ethical structure to have done the dirty deed" conveys that the poster does not believe my ethics would allow me to do such a thing, and you agree with him. You're right, "doomers funny", there IS a distinction, and you demonstrate that you do not understand it. (You really are funny.)

P.S. (that means postscript, "doomers funny") - If you truly believe that post by "doomers caught" is an attempt at satire, remedial reading will not be helpful to you until you've received treatment for your learning disability. For a good study aid in satire, see "Don't drop the soap, etc." above.

-- Chicken Dearest (blame@forthebirds.com), August 25, 1999.


I guess the debunking site DOES run on brain power! Maybe its that super powerful NT server its hosted on...ooooohhh, what awesome power!

br14

-- br14 (br14@bout.done), August 25, 1999.


Hey I wonder if CPR's "files" got dumped as well... LOL

-- CPR is an ass, but of the highest calibre (@ .), August 25, 1999.

Doc "We've been hacked!" Paulie now says:

This is a problem downstream someplace. If it were the script at ITW, I doubt anyone would be doing what Michelle and others have said. I cannot access at all, tried all the tricks from my end and all I get is the server notice. I also think if it were based at ITW, it would not have lasted this long,(36 hours+). Someplace downstream, a HOP point sits with crapola for the ITW URL. Finding this sucker alone tells me we maybe waiting a longtime. To ITW, they see a functioning board(sans70% of the traffic).

I see the dorkweeds at Strokingtheiryoke2000 have finally picked-up on this. To answer some of them, the "hacking" was more sarcastic than anything. It IS possible to crash some webboard scripts with malicious HTML. If this had been the case at Debunki, I expect it would have not been intentional. The fact 30% of the traffic still is able to access tells me this was not the cause. Using the word, HACKED in this instance was appropriate given the paranoid condition of the subject material, just sarcasim.

Base issue here is control. I have very little with regards the Debunki forum. Knew this going-in. Started as a spare to this place. Now the tide turns back here is all. I would suggest one gets comfortable HERE. My gut tells me this is the end of Debunki as we know it, TEODAWKI.

-- Troll- (watching@the.bridge), August 25, 1999.


I wonder if Michelle mudwrestles....

-- King of Spain (madrid@aol.com), August 25, 1999.

If Mr. I Hate Clowns is having this much fun with a garbled server script, he's gonna love the multiple simultaneous parallel systemic failure that starts blooming next year...

-- a (a@a.a), August 25, 1999.

Leave it to an anal retentive doomer to pick on spelling.And if you apply double double negatives to that sentence is does work. Then again, doomers see what they want when they read.

-- a-hole hater (ihate@ss.holes), August 25, 1999.

King, maybe she does if nobody makes any money off it. Is mud-wrestling a meme?

Besides, Lisa may have hog-tied her by then - on the temporary replacement for Bonkers, created by The Buddy Formerly Known as Doomslayer and mellifluously entitled, "Y2K Sucks," Michelle asks, a tad undiplomatically, "Who is Lisa? Anybody" Hey, Lisa - you anybody?

http://www.insidetheweb.com/mbs.cgi/mb723589

-- Troll- (watching@the.bridge), August 25, 1999.


DALLAS, Aug 24 (Reuters) -- Health officials in Dallas tracking an outbreak of syphilis have discovered that the cases have a cyberspace connection: an Internet chat room... called Debunking Y2K.

Is this for real?

-- that's very funny (pityfor@mr.decker), August 25, 1999.


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