On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 7:20 PM, Anthony <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 7:07 PM, bawolff <[email protected]> wrote: >> Anthony wrote: >> The pages you link to seem to indicate he's nothing more than a >> willy-on-wheels type vandal, who at worst tricked an admin into doing >> a delete of a page with a very high number of revisions making the >> server kittens cry for a moment. There's no indication he has "mad >> hacker skillz" in any way or form (and given the tone of that >> Encyclopedia Dramatica page, I assume they'd be bragging about it if >> he did). > > As I said, I couldn't find a page which described it in detail. Maybe > if you look at archive.org?
By the way, my comment about "mad hacker skillz" was meant to be sarcastic. The term "script kiddie" is probably more accurate. I don't know how the person did it. I don't know whether they were *the* Grawp or just a copycat. I don't know if they found a parsing bug, or they found a backdoor through a default password, or if they hacked my account password (*). I even don't know if it was javascript or style sheets or gabagool or whatever the hell. All I know is that he fucked up my site so bad I didn't know how to fix it (other than restoring the database, which I didn't feel like doing). I asked someone to take a look at the site, and he said I was attacked by Grawp and I needed to upgrade my Mediawiki. At that point I said "fuck it, I'm just going to host a few pages at Knol, and just take down the rest". (*) I believe it was the former, though, because when I looked at the database the page edits were made by a regular user, not by me, and not by a special account. And all of this is irrelevant. Generating an MD5 collision does not in any way involve "mad hacker skillz". _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
