Flaky Hacker

October 12, 2004

To the per­son that feels it’s funny to con­stantly reset my admin­is­tra­tive pass­word, you are being watched. Hon­estly, I really don’t see the humor behind it and if you’re try­ing to log into my account, good luck, con­sid­er­ing the pass­word that you reset is sent to my secure email account I don’t see any ben­e­fit in doing this other than for your own amuse­ment. An odd sort of amuse­ment if you ask me.

I sup­pose you know you’ve reached a cer­tain sta­tus, of which I believe is cur­rently “psuedo known”, when peo­ple lift or steal your work and/or fid­dle with your admin back­end to retreive per­ti­nent infor­ma­tion. My advice for you is to please divert your atten­tion and time to some­thing else, you’ll find that focus­ing on some­thing worth­while might incur more inter­est­ing results.

Update: The mys­tery has been solved. It was my “up to no good and in the Navy” brother Matt who reset my admin­is­tra­tive pass­word and broke into the MySQL data­base that runs this site. 

9 comments

“…when peo­ple lift or steal your work and/or fid­dle with your admin backend…”

… or hit your blog with a pretty heavy spam­ming campain :-/

by Richard@Home on October 12, 2004 at 10:07 am. Reply #

Richard: On aver­age, I’m hit about 4–5 times a week with spam. How­ever, with Word­Press it’s just a mat­ter of not approv­ing the mes­sage and pro­cess­ing it accordingly.

by kartooner on October 12, 2004 at 10:19 am. Reply #

@Kartooner, man that’s ridicu­lous. What kind of low-life are you attract­ing here? ;) Seri­ously — don’t think I’ve had that hap­pen to me…yet.

I think my pet-hate at the moment is not com­ment spam (WP han­dles that fab­u­lously) but refer­ral spam…had a new out­fit try­ing their luck this week. I may start con­tact­ing ISP’s to see what their pol­icy on it is.

by Gary on October 12, 2004 at 1:57 pm. Reply #

Haha, you know whats funny? Your hacker is no other then your brother.. I’ve been try­ing lately to get in to your server to see if I can find any faults so I got bored last night and decided to see if I could get in with­out know­ing any­thing. I man­aged to get in to your SQL­Data­base, see what pass­words you use and also attempted to change it. I changed your per­mis­sions on the SQL so you can’t read the php file over a browser..

Haha.. God I’m good. Though I was caught, so I ended up not being so good but still.. You owe me once again..:)

by Matt (brother) on October 12, 2004 at 4:19 pm. Reply #

Matt: I fig­ured it was prob­a­bly you, but only in this instance. I’ve had this hap­pen a cou­ple times in the past and won­dered if the orig­i­nal hacker had returned. Next time, con­sult with me please before I suf­fer from a migraine try­ing to deal with issues like these.

by kartooner on October 12, 2004 at 4:24 pm. Reply #

Damn broth­ers. I know the trou­ble they can cause, but mine are luck­ily not so web-savvy.

by Rob Mientjes on October 12, 2004 at 5:07 pm. Reply #

Hey hey, I can eas­ily reset the per­mis­sions and have some idiot come in and cause seri­ous havoc to your server.. Your lucky I found your hole before a real hacker did.. We can see what prob­lems I really can cause, if need be dear brother. :)

by Matt (brother) on October 12, 2004 at 6:39 pm. Reply #

If he’s up to no good the Navy is the best place for him. I just hope he is no where near the nukes :)

by Root on October 12, 2004 at 7:53 pm. Reply #

You can always count on your broth­ers for a lit­tle excite­ment in life. That’s why I’m not encour­ag­ing my broth­ers to pur­sue com­put­ers. I’m the res­i­dent fam­ily nerd, and would like it that way. How else would I charge huge sum of money for my time? ;)

by Matt Burris on October 12, 2004 at 8:38 pm. Reply #

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