RE: [PHP] To The Hacker: CodeBoy

I agree with Jason, Are you guys nuts? He was just trying to be cool, and in order to be cool he needed to mention: THAT WAS ME!!! He's not a hacker (hey, no offence Jonathon) ... a real hacker will never post any threaten message on a 5000 users mailing list. A beginner(amateur) hacker however will. Don't worry about him Phillip. And you Jonathon erase all these files and contact Phillip *personally* telling him more what his security wholes are, so he'll be grateful to you. Just came to my mind: my Hacking story: I once had a website which was some sort of search engine. The users were submitting their sites and we were validating for credibility. (no fancy homepages ect....) One guy submitted a site which when I was validating gave a JavaScript alert. That alert had a button which when you click calls other alert and so on ... my explorer had frozen (on my old win98 1-ed), and I had to reboot my PC completely losing all unsaved data.... lots of it... of a project I was working for a while... Man, I got mad. I started my PC again, went to the validation section of my site and, looked at the password he inputted during the submission of his site. Guess what? It matched the password he had on his angelfire site!!! I f***ng moved all he got up there in folder called :"Do_not_do_this_anymore"! .....uff..... what e relieve.... I never contacted him of course, but I wasn't even a hacker. my sweet story .... "god I love to tell'em" Sincerely, Maxim Maletsky Founder, Chief Developer PHPBeginner.com (Where PHP Begins) maxim@phpbeginner.com www.phpbeginner.com -----Original Message----- From: Jason Murray [mailto:Jason.Murray@melbourneit.com.au] Sent: Monday, February 12, 2001 9:11 AM To: 'rswfire'; Jonathan Sharp Cc: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: RE: [PHP] To The Hacker: CodeBoy > Furthermore, below you stated I posted a URL. That URL was > to a geocities.com site. That site has nothing to do with > PHP and has nothing to do with my local computer. In fact, > that geocities.com site only showed screenshots of what I > had been working on. Obviously, it must have sparked your > interest because you went to work on finding out my IP > Address so that you could break into my system. One would probably guess the URL of the site you were working on was in the screenshots. You don't need to "find" an IP address at that point. Furthermore, Jonathan stated that he didn't "break into" your system - you left phpMyAdmin *wide* open, which is frankly asking for trouble. Imagine how much fun you'd have had if someone with *malicious* intent had found it. And lastly ... if he was *really* going to do anything, would he really be so stupid as to leave his commonly-known pseudonym, which can be (as you proved) easily traced back to himself? I think this whole issue has been blown out of proportion enough on the list now, and as it's no longer a PHP-related discussion I suggest you move it to private mail. And, try some valium for loss of sleep. :) Jason -- Jason Murray jasonm@melbourneit.com.au Web Design Team, Melbourne IT Fetch the comfy chair! -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net