[Discussion] Thoughts and Opinions

[Stacks]

What are your thoughts on the recent attack?

-How is it going to affect the community?

-Opinions about the attack.

-Reaction to NarutoBase being offline.

-Discovering it was an attack.

I know everyone would like to hear from different point of views.​

 

[Punk Hazard]

My reaction? Pretty much this

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[KGB Kakuzu]

Was in the middle of a counter argument... couldn't log in... though somehow I had been banned (for what/why I couldn't get).

I was surprised... finally some troll threatening to hack must have finally committed the act.


I don't think it will change the Base much... just take time to get everyone back between those who aren't on or haven't checked their E-Mail!

 

[Murasame]

I remember a troll declaring he would hack the Base or whatever.. forgot who it was but I think it had to do with the bugsniffer alts.. idk but I was suprised.. I just thought the Base was down going under maintenance or something but not an attack.

 

[Edo Odin]

The first things that came to my mind during all this:

What are your thoughts on the recent attack? I'm curious to know who's behind it, and why.

-How is it going to affect the community? A few members might bail, but I doubt it will change much around here.

-Opinions about the attack. It was an annoyance.

-Reaction to NarutoBase being offline. Been pretty busy, so I didn't really care too much.

-Discovering it was an attack. Same as answer one.

 

[vandell]

I told people to stay away from the illuminati threads now they have your info and they will be to see u lol

 

[vegeta50hbk]

My only thought was, "Maybe since it's down, they'll finally change the banner!!"

-_-

 

[Kenpai]

1. Didn't care. Someone must have got butt hurt after losing a argument.
2. What is this?
3. I don't care.
4. I'm fine with it. There are plenty of other sources to get the Manga.
4. Same as one.

 

[NamikazeUzumakiNaruto]

Hmm lets see i almost cried(jk) this morning i had to change a few websites passwords that i go on to, i watched some naruto and thought about the narutobase bot and thought this is the first time ever i will miss him if nb never comes back on.

 

[Trinky]

I don't think it'll have too much of an impact on the community. Another forum I use had their database stolen back last year and nowadays it's like nothing ever happened.

 

[Michael92]

Meh, everything will be back to normal in no time, no biggie.

All I could think off was... Who was it -_- Dragonlord anyone?

 

[Aim64C]

I remember a troll declaring he would hack the Base or whatever.. forgot who it was but I think it had to do with the bugsniffer alts.. idk but I was suprised.. I just thought the Base was down going under maintenance or something but not an attack.

There doesn't exist a single website with 1/1000th the amount of traffic this site receives that has not received some kind of hacking threat or another.

The people who hacked this site, likely, were not members. They were 'professionals' with human intelligence networks looking to mine e-mail addresses, usernames, passwords, etc for information that can be used for marketing/advertising purposes (as well as some identity theft purposes - but there's always a need for demographic statistics).

I would guess that the real objective was to get profile data from people and conversation history that can be data mined more efficiently than running a browser bot.

But, I'm not necessarily in the trade of doing this - so I may be quite wrong.

I told people to stay away from the illuminati threads now they have your info and they will be to see u lol

Don't threaten me with a good time. They'd be wise to kill me before I get much time to learn their game. I tend to learn things exceptionally quickly and out-pace my teachers before their very eyes.

-How is it going to affect the community?

*shrug*

Internet forums are a psychological addiction for many people. If they decide to leave this community or to start acting all paranoid about things - it won't be long before they shift to another forum community.

Most people will treat this exactly how they reacted to the PlayStation Network being hacked. Forget about it in a month.

-Opinions about the attack.

Likely a disgruntled employee from a web hosting company - or someone at such a company dropped the ball, making the servers vulnerable. It is unlikely that NarutoBase was the only website affected by this particular attack, but more likely was one of several forums and/or websites that were hit in a batch run.

This site's data was likely a secondary or even tertiary target in the run - with relatively low potential for having significant marketable data.

-Reaction to NarutoBase being offline.

"Hmm... they've been down for a while... *checks downforeveryoneorjustme* Well, I guess that means I haven't been banned for being a prick with a god complex to people in general discussion. ... I've got a random-ass desire to re-visit the Tenchi Muyo series, because it never made any sense to me when I would catch bits and pieces of it on Toonami. Guess I'll do that."

-Discovering it was an attack.

"Hmm... I'll go ahead and check my password database to see what I had this standard deviation linked to. Wonder when biometrics are going to become the standard for all web services."

This stuff isn't too new to those of us who have been around the web for 10+ years. Though it has gotten worse lately. A dollar will by a whole hell of a lot of floating point operations these days, compared to what it would even ten years ago. You can brute-force decrypt even 256 bit, these days, with a million dollars worth of hardware.

Though, ironically, that's not really the most cost-effective employ of that kind of computing power. The real cost/effect is in processing huge amounts of data for marketing purposes. How do people talk to each other? What factors more substantially influence their decision making processes?

You can get real world information 'from the wild' of the Internet that you can't get in controlled experiments and that are from websites/structures that are different from those practically built for marketing (facebook). You can also offer your data to the highest clandestine bidder who is all but guaranteed to be the only one having access to that research (better than having a patent or copyright).

Though, like I said - I doubt this site in particular was the primary target. It was likely lumped in with several others (that were higher priority targets with better byte-to-relevance ratios).

 

[Jack Spicer]

-How is it going to affect the community?
It really won't, although I became very paranoid over the password deal.

-Opinions about the attack.
Very uncool

-Reaction to NarutoBase being offline.
I thought I was permanently banned.

-Discovering it was an attack.
Surprised, relieved, worried and like I said, it was uncool.

 

[UchihaBrat]

What are your thoughts on the recent attack?
Didn't recognize it for one!
-How is it going to affect the community?
Dunno, I won't leave unless the effects are serious~
-Opinions about the attack.
None~
-Reaction to NarutoBase being offline.
Probably some other database error, or actually, my internet messing around again..
-Discovering it was an attack.
OMG! Is this why my password had changed? Or is that because I typed it wrongly four times(unlikely).

 

[Transcendence]

What are your thoughts on the recent attack? - Didn't even realize it was an attack at first. I learned a couple of hours ago. I was under the assumption something was wrong with my internet and it couldn't connect to NB anymore.

-How is it going to affect the community? - It'll be fine. Narutobase is one of the largest forums on the web. Not everyone has been notified that it was an attack. A little disgruntlement here and there, but we'll get back to the cesspool of idiocy that is "Naruto Discussion" within a reasonable time frame.

-Opinions about the attack. - Absolutely pathetic on the attackers part. No clue what he/she would of tried to gain from this. Probably commercial use but use of such methods is pathetic.

-Reaction to NarutoBase being offline. - I'll reiterate; I didn't know it was offline. It was one of my presumptions, but I thought of a worse case scenario where just me, myself couldn't connect anymore. But I had many things to do in absence of NB. So it didn't affect me that much.

-Discovering it was an attack. - I was very surprised.

 

[Disquiet]

Didn't think too much of it really. No entity is immune to possibility of misfortune, such a concept is impossible. If all thought is invested into the unlikelihood of such incidents, then you'll be slapped in your face a hundred times before you have time to recover from the shock of the first. Furthermore, NB was attacked before; albeit quickly dealt with.

Manga day will most likely bring everyone back. Users will be quite anxious to get their opinions out there. Also, some people are mentally at peace when on NB. Hence the many addicted users.

I don't have any opinions.

Well, at first I thought it was a database error. After two hours, I suspected it was an attack. It was hard to imagine any error could keep it down that long, Versuvio and or the admins is usually pretty fast. When it's down that long for maintenance/updates, we would normally get a 'NB is being updated', also we would normally be notified beforehand of an upgrade on that scale. Still, I knew I could be wrong.

I found out I was right lol. So no shock. *_*