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Secure your forum
Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2007 8:34 am
by Anonymous
Hi!
Your forum is wide open to automatic registrations and postings. Spammers can use it to spread their junk automatically, just like we did to send you this message.
Find 'projekt spambot' on Google and to learn how we did this and how to secure your forum against this pest.
This is a one-time posting by 'Projekt SpamBot 2.0' to help forum-admins to secure their software. This account will not be used again, you can delete it (and this post) if you wish.
(We know we said it would have been a one time-posting the last time, but now being able to crack phpBB's CAPTCHA and the 'Humanizer' so easily lead us to version 2.0 to tell the community how unsafe phpBB is *again*.)
phpBB's standard-CAPTCHA is NOT safe. If you activated it for your forum, this post is the proof that it can be broken. (Our article tells you how.) Also the standard-'Humanizer' offers no security. You'll agree if you have it installed and have this text posted to your forum.
To stop spammers we recommend the MODs 'Advanced Visual Confirmation' and 'Unique Registration Hash' which can be found at phpbbhacks.com or the MOD-database on phpbb.com. 'Antibot Question MOD' is a good way to keep your forum clean and the MOD 'Anti-Spam ACP' also offers various modifications against spam.
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Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2007 1:13 pm
by spiderman
Thanks, mum.
Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2007 3:10 pm
by harbourseal
Just how many spiderwomen are there?
Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2007 3:18 pm
by a nonny mouse
Dunno. As long as they keep away from me. Shudder.
ANM
Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2007 8:28 pm
by Tim Bowles
Don't panic, folks, we have an extremely effective anti-spam bot which regularly inspects the memberships and deletes the sad, joyless pond-life whose joy it is to bring a little bit of misery into as many lives as possible.
It's called me, and I am reasonably on top of the job at the moment. Any real people who get deleted should re-register with a somewhat more real-sounding monicker.
Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2007 10:35 pm
by harbourseal
Where is Seventh Seil (Our man in Stavanger) ?
Haven't heard much from him lately?
Has he been deleted as "sad, joyless pond-life" too?
Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2007 8:20 pm
by Tim Bowles
Not sure about the sad joyless pond life bit, but 7th is most certainly not a deleted entity. The ones who do get deleted are those with names created by allowing undirected fingers to wander aimlessly about the keyboard, or who have decidedly dodgy web addresses in their profiles. They are an utter buttockular pain, but it is the work of but moments to consign them to oblivion.
Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 8:44 pm
by spiderman
Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 8:51 pm
by a nonny mouse
Moi? Spiderwoman? Take that back you - you spiderman you. Zappp
Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 8:59 pm
by spiderman
Wee, sleekit, cowrin, tim'rous beastie,
O, what a panic's in thy breastie!
Thou need na start awa sae hasty
Wi bickering brattle!
I wad be laith to rin an' chase thee,
Wi' murdering pattle.
I'm truly sorry spiderman's dominion
Has broken Nature's social union..........
Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 9:09 pm
by harbourseal
Like the new Avatar Spidee.....................is that a new gimp mask?
Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 9:23 pm
by spiderman
Hello, wee harbie. What's this "gimp" word you keep usin'? Something you use in your fishing? Here's the choices from the dictionary:
"Gimp" may be or refer to:
The GIMP, an image editor
GIMPS, the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search
Gimp (band), a punk band from New Jersey, United States
Gimp (thread), a type of thread used to make lanyards
A politically incorrect or pejorative term for a paraplegic person, anyone with a limp, or physical disability in the legs.
Gimp (computer role-playing games), a weak RPG character or ability, or the process of making a once powerful character or ability weaker.
Gimp (sadomasochism), a type of sexual submissive in BDSM
The Gimp - a character in Quentin Tarantino's film Pulp Fiction, see above
Gutenprint, a collection of printer drivers that were originally called Gimp-Print
Gimp room, a slang architecture term"
Anyway, the truth is that, way back in time in New York, the radioactive spider bit me on the effin' napper..........
Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 9:35 pm
by harbourseal
Hello my half man - half chelicerate pal - the term when conjoined with the word "mask" should give you a clue
However - I do appreciate the trouble you went to researching the subject. Careful though - you wouldn't want to be accused of being an "internet blog geek"
...................or perhaps the spider doth protest to much?
Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 9:53 pm
by spiderman
Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 8:45 am
by harbourseal
Sorry Spidee - don't want to give you too much grief as you are obviously a man (apart from the spidery bits) who enjoys a stimulating, intellectual debate about all manner of important (and not so important) issues affecting this fair isle and its good folk....and we would all miss that if you got your silky spider knickers in a twist and went off in the huff..
I'm definitely not a green goblin (which I though that was an old fire engine before being enlightened by the comic book literati).
Nothing wrong with mobile phones (though the buttons are a bit small for my flippers) per se....
My point is this, and really only this, we shouldn't be absolved of our individual responsibities to think and act safely viz a viz safety at sea and on the hills by becoming too reliant on this technology ..
Yes - great they do save lives. agreed - but by placing an increasing reliance on them we potentially put ourselves in situations of greater risk...and certainly the lives of the good people, a lot of whom are volunteers, who are dragged out in some fairly appallling conditions in the most challenging environments to come and get us.
You may not agree with me my spandex clad friend - but surely you are spiderman enough to admit I have a point
Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 9:23 am
by spiderman
Yep, Harbie, I'm a bit worried that we're about to agree! Mobile phones are open to all kinds of abuse and can be quite maddening (maybe even dangerous, as you say) but, like many other things, it's how you use them that matters not what they are. Our problem is that we currently don't have an option to use them, i.e. no signal, and hence, as a community, we can't access their benefits (while shunning their drawbacks). Having superhuman powers, this really doesn't matter to me personally - it's just that I'm concerned for the normal Seil humans and our wee Seil seals....
Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 10:40 am
by Keshet