Attack on Sims Websites? Okay, something's leading to believe this is more than a mere coincidence, but again, it could be merely coincidence. So Tuesday of this past week, SimsPE server nearly got hacked. Thursday - MATY goes offline for unknown reasons...believed to be Nameservers issues Friday - Sims 2 BBS gets spammed to death. While I'm usually not paranoid, these strings of attacks are a bit unusual and if it's not a bit of concern for anyone, it is a bit alarming in my book.
I was thinking along the same lines, Josh. Paranoia is not pretty but it doesn't look much like coincidence. The simming community is in danger of becoming a simmering one
Oh, the reasons are known. A certain group of SOMEBODIES, whose identities are suspected with a great deal of confidence, with a personal vendetta forged a vast number of spurious complaints to the DNS registrar alleging some yet unknown accusation to get them to suspend the DNS. I am currently screaming at them, after which I will transfer everything to less unreliable registrars that do not side with RANDOM STRANGERS over their PAYING CUSTOMERS. It's not paranoia when they really are out to get you.
Ah yes, JM. But in my lexicon the term vendetta has two distinct meanings. In the case of MATY's current difficulties either could apply but I suspect you used the term empirically, in the revenge sense (vendetta being derived from the latin vindicta), and revenge implicitly requires a fuse. Need I quote the proverb -- or do I mean adage? -- concerning vitreous domiciles and litho-ballistics? To phrase it more bluntly: if you insist that a vendetta is being waged then you implicity acknowledge an initiating affront on your own part. Maybe an apology would be simpler all round ...
Unfortunately, as far as I can tell, the alleged offense is imaginary and exists entirely in the the other party's head. This means *I* certainly have no idea what her major malfunction is. Besides, it doesn't really solve the present problem. I just figure this to be the start of one more ugly feud.
Ah but how many pointless and expensive wars might have been headed off if someone had just said: "sorry" before looking for a reason to apologise. Like a sim most offense is 99% imagination and 1% creative distortion of historical fact but that doesn't make the pain any less likable in the mind of the beholder. The chivalrous and gallant course is to grovel and save the snickering for where it belongs: behind closed doors.
I think it unwise to just blame whoever Pescado you believe it is. Other than your own personal beliefs, it's pure speculation. Plus I can tell you from experience that if the offense was valid or invalid, Registrars will always side with you. They would force the person who made the complaint to take action through legal means or to the WTO. So in your case, since the dns registrar did something, you did something to warrant it.
They've figured out which account the official site was hacked from and are turning the info over to legal to sort out the rest of it. Evidently the account where it started had a very easy password to guess (in spite of the warnings they were given to change it to something difficult). It made me glad that my husband had taken me away for the weekend.
Oh, the drama!!! I haven't tried Heleane's site. I'm wondering if it was in the Attacking spree, too. :(
Yeah, I heard about those sites and Heleane as well, there was another one, maybe snootysims> Not sure but the rate this is going, this forum, insimenatore and MTS2 could be next, why does someone want to attack a innocent sim forums?
Some people get their jollies from hurting others. It has never made sense to me, but there are an amazing number of people who think that it's fun to do things like this. Personally, I have more than enough to do in my life without wasting my time trying to do things which hurt others.
I see, I agree I wouldn't waste time doing something like tha,t espsxially onm the net, aleast the sims fourms aren't alone, The Serebii forums have been attacked a couple of times and that a Pokemon site, then thier Neopets which was attacked, whether the neopets team want to believe it or not..
It could be that it was not the site which was attacked but some of the site users who were attacked. On the official site, we have people claiming that their account has been "hacked" when it's really that they've left their computer up and running while they left to use the bathroom, allowing their sibling or a classmate who didn't like them to have access. Or they've given their password to a friend. Or they've left the password visible where anyone can find it. Or they haven't followed the advice of the Maxoids to make sure that it is not something simple which can be guessed (like the numnils who have passwords like "TheSims2" or "MySims" or uses their real names. Those aren't considered hacking attacks. Those are completely different than when a site itself gets hacked. So, it's possible that Neopets didn't get hacked, but some individuals were hacked (which is a completely different problem.)
