Category: the Rant Board
Since Blink Nation was hacked into, it is down, and who knows if it will ever come back, I hope you are proud of your self, you scum sucking piece of garbage you! Congratulations for reaching a new low. What a coward, hiding behind a computer and picking on people you don't even know, but I doubt if you will ever read this, because you are probably too busy scamming little old ladies, knocking over people in wheel chairs, and kicking puppy dogs! But I guess us blind people needed to be put in our places, because they can't be treating us blind people too good, because then everyone is going to want to be blind.
I have never done anything to you, but you took something from me. Whatever people thought of Blink Nation, the members of blink nation didn't deserve this, I hope The Zone never experiences what Blink Nation mmembers have, don't get me wrong, I don't think The Zone has anything to do with what happened to Blink Nation, I think the Zone is cool, and I would like to thank the Zone and it's members for welcoming me, I hope to make a lot of new friends here, well, that's all I have to say for now.
Tim...
Oh, did I say you were a scum sucking piece of garbage? well you are! You have only made yourself look like a giant ass!
This is from one of the accounts the hacker created on Blink Nation.
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Okay, you all deleted my bot's account, its time for me to hack and kill every admin on this system! Goodbye, bitches!
Which is what he did, he also deleted my account, I lost all of my content because of him.
Erm, while this would be an annoying turn of events if one had posted a lot to a particular place, there's a lot more out there than blink nation. Perhaps you should go find something else to occupy your time?
Your compassion is underwhelming!
Well, given the reputation of BlinkNation.com people here, the only reason we may feel a twinge of worry is that you lot may start coming over here too.
One might also think your site admin would have done proper back ups and should be able to get the site back online relatively easily, despite the hacking.
Or, you know, you may, like, want to get a life or something, just a suggestion.
one would think, if this person doesn't refers to zone hacking their retarded site, they won't post such a rediculous thing here for no reason.
one would also thing, people like that logging in to zone is seeking the opportunity to create dramas.
one would again, also thing, maybe those people that considering themselves as blinretartion might be those who actually hack in to the system. poor mommy geeky woman keeping up with all this bunch of garbish
I didn't see anything particularly wrong with Blinknation, except that I see a lot of Blinknation Verses Zone boards. Like Singer of Songs said, there are plenty of other sites out there you can go to, and, *gasps*, places offline.
I'm sorry Blinknation was hacked, and nobody has that right, but the fact that you are posting this here, on the zone, as if the hacker will read this, kind of suggests you think it may have been a zoner who did it, don't you think?
Thanks Ocean of dreams, no it's not that I think the hacker was aZoner, it's just that I don't wan't to see something like this happen to the Zone.
First off, we don't know it was not a simple system failure or the like, as a story has yet to come out on this.
Second, I'm trying to figure out why on earth a perfectly competent hacker would waste their time on BlinkNation? BlinkNation, it appeared to me at least, didn't store address, phone number or other data useful to an identity thief, it didn't appear to charge anyone money so would have no financial records. Hacking is nothing anymore if not a monetary crime, directly or otherwise. The days of someone pranking into a school computer "just for shits" are quite passé, if nothing else because it's pretty easy to trace a juvie hacker like that: both trace and prevent. Aside from that, real hackers generally harvest, more like a parasite than a full predation scenario. The site or place targeted is more of a feed farm for them, which, again, is why it's generally linked to monetary or identity theft crimes.
On a side note, should facebook and Twitter go down simultaneously, where would all the young teenys go to 'omg' and 'lmao' about their profiles going down? Or how many texts would they have sent into the proverbial bit void before realizing their site was down? That is a bit amusing, albeit in a rather sardonic sort of way. And no, kiddies, those sites aren't likely to experience that since they run on virtual servers, aka a team of hackers would be fighting thousands of machines, all of them more responsive than they are.
to the first poster: and you think we care? get a life, man.
I'm just as annoyed as he is. I actually spend somewhat more time on BlinkNation than I do the Zone. I hope they can fix the problem, whatever it was.
I would care if the Zone went down, I think Blind people should stick together, but that's just me. And yes Blink Nation was hacked, the hacker was in the chat room boasting about it, he only did it to hurt people, not for financial gain. I thought this catagorey was the rant catagorey, to post what's on your mind, freedom of speech and all, even if the person never reads it. My intention was not to create controversy here, I just thought the hacker was the bad guy, not me, and not you guys, so I apologize if I have offended anyone.
hmm
I too have recently spent quite a lot of time on blinknation. I am not going to say that it is better than the zone as they both have advantages and disadvantages. But it did come as a bit of a shock when I read Geek Woman's twitter and found this out. According to her twitter, it'll be down for at least a few weeks because the site needs to be re-built cos of security flaws. I know i'll get abuse for posting this, but I don't honestly care and i am happy to admit that i like both sites. But in all seriousness, regardless of what people think, I hope this idiot hacker, whoever they are, get found out and face the authorities because this is just wrong!
If people want a temporary place to hang out apart from the zone, check out http://muztech.podzone.org.
yeah, blinc nation and zone have their difrences.
Personally, i like the zone better, that's because I was getting really annoyed with the blinc nation sign in form.
I hope you are not saying we as blind people should exclude the sighted people who are in our everyday lives. I just wondered because thats the aditude I see from blind individuals. They sometimes feel we don't need them. I feel we do and we shouldn't exclude them. if you think about it we are like them in more ways than I could list. I've saw life from both sides... We play games and we socialize. Thats just life. They do to but on game consoles. We do on the computer. There are nerds out there who I use to game with when I had more vision and we would sit on our asses all day and in to the late hours of the night kicking ass at games that are for game consoles but are in pc formats as well. They socialize by going out. We socialize by getting on here. On here meaning we talk to anyone we chose to and have a bigger and more diverse contact list than someone who doesn't get to talk to all kinds of different people from different walks of life. i personally don't think we are as isolated socializing with others from different walks of life than you or your people around you such as family members or coleegs might think. As for getting out its harder for us. We may have a few local friends around us but we don't have a car. Its easy to get bored with someone when all they know or do is go on the computer or watch described movies and regular programed television. I am not in anyway saying this is a bad thing. Its not. Its just how we are because we have more limited resources of entertainment than some others do. I am not generalizing either and saying this is just for all blind individuals. I'm saying its a mix of some being able to get out and have fun and some who are ok with just talking to others whom are blind.
Alright... I digress and apologize for going a little bit off topic.
As for the zone I do think they administration team, and community leadership backed things up. I would think that would be more in the administrations category though. I do not know so I might be giving more credit to the community leaders. OH well. I'm sure you guys deserve it. :)
Just because the hacker said he was going to hack doesn't mean he actually did it. That would be quite the coincidence, I'll grant you, but Blinknation has gone down before, and not because of a hacker. There were certain users awhile back on the zone who talked about hacking. That doesn't mean they did it.
Post 17, I agree. Almost everyone in my daily life is sighted, and that includes my own flesh and blood, my daughter. A hacker would not first hack, then brag about it on social networking sites, unless social networking types are so ... out there ... that even us sardonic and pithy types haven't rendered them enough criticism. Frankly I imagine the former: the real perp would not be the one in a chat room somewhere.
But returning to Post 17, thank you for talking sense. Most people we associate with by desire or necessity are sighted, and they can no more change that than we could change being blind. I mean, if the power's out, which one of us would do anything less than light the candles and the like for sighted folks around us, because we're as at home in total darkness as in light, and lack the fear associated with the instant loss of their primary sense, as they experience. That's just one instance, but blind separatism seems ludicrous. Then again, to me anyway, separatism of any kind seems ludicrous, so at least I am not discriminating to say this.
hmmm... what an interesting topic.
firstly, post 14... what a waste of time.
as for my site choice, i prefer the zone over blink nation. while blink nation does have a video uploader, and a 3 for all blog, it lacks in terms of the games and other such features like quizzes and good inteligent chat.
as for how i feel about blink nation being hacked, such is life. while i used it a lot (more in the past few months), uploaded videos and posted to the forums, who really cares though. it's just some low life person who decided that they had nothing better to do than to crash the site.
I was in the chat room at the same time as the hacker, he was telling people to call him king, and if you said something to anger him, he would just delete your account, my account was deleted, as well as others were because they said something he didn't like, and if you would sign up again, he would delete your account unless you did whatever he said. So there is no doubt, there was a hacker, he signed up under anonymous user at least twice, he was deleted by the admin, then he signed up later and hacked into the admins accounts and made himself the admin, as anonymous user, which is what he was in the chat room under.
as has been said, such is life, man. if this pisses you off so much, I shutter to think what real, traumatic situations would do to you should you ever experience something of the sort.
What a waste of time. It's not like blink nation is everyone's life and they should be on there every day. I'm not trying to justify the fact that the hacker did that, but come on. I personally didn't care about what happened there anyway.
I think blind people should stick together, and not fight amongst ourselves, but that doesn't mean we should isolate ourselves from sighted people because we all need eachother.
First, whether people choose to hang out on the Zone, Blinknation, both, or neither is completely up to them. If people want to fight about that, then they're crazy. I prefer the zone, but that's just me.
I too, am wondering why they have to rebuild the site as well. I am surprised they do not have back-ups like the Zone does. Maybe they do not have the capability to? I'm not so much criticizing BN for this, just very curious.
However, Tim, I do have a few points. First, your original two posts were addressed directly to the hacker. Between that, and your posting it on here, you do seem to be implying that it was a Zoner, and yet, you come back around and contradict yourself on that. Second, as has been said, get a life. If your world is so narrow that you are this upset about BN going down, I pity you. Yes, it is an inconvenience when the Zone goes down, or FB, etc. But most of us find other things to do, such as hang out with friends in person, indulge in other hobbies, or even find other things to do on the computer itself.
totally agree with alicia and everyone else. I also got that same impression david, about the blind people should stick together stuff...
@8 It's probably wrong to assume anything, but let's be honest, he / she is probably blind. Since he she likes to hang out on blind social networks, I think it's fairly reasonable to assume that the hacker is a member, has been a member or at the very least knows of the zone.
Remember, you don't have to be logged in to read the boards.
What would be wrong with the op assuming that the person is on the zone anyway? I personally think it's fairly lightly that there a member or at least they will read this at some point.
To everyone who says that the op should get a life. I more or less agree with you - at the end of the day, a small blind social networking site probably shouldn't be the reason why anyone gets up in the morning. However and I know this is a bit of a bad example, picture yourself walking through a park. A nice lovely park where you go to enjoy yourself, perhaps even carm down after an arguement. Except this time you go to the park and it's completely trashed. There are empty bottles, needels and other general peces of litter everyware. I know this is slightly different to a website since we're deeling with something physical here as apposed to 1's and 0's, but surely this would annoy and perhapsupset you?
B3N, I see your point. But I wager that many hackers do so to get attention. If what the original poster is telling us is true, then we already know that's what this guy is doing, if he was bragging about it in a chat room. So, all the original poster has done by writing this, is show this alleged hacker that he's accomplished his goal: gotten attention, and upset people. I personally would not have given this supposed hacker the satisfaction of reading this topic! I'm done now.
If this did indeed happen perhaps the blinknation admin was foolish enough to not back up data records and such. And any hacker worth his or her salt would not waist time piddling around with a social networking site.
this is the rant board, where people, guess what, rant. so if he rants about bn being hacked it doesn-t mean he thinks the zone has anything to do with it. people post in this category about anything, it doesn-t mean they think the zone has anything to do with it.
also, while i agree completely that there-s sooo much out there to do besides blink nation, can you imagine the reaction of many zoners if what happened to blink nation happened to this site_
Post 30, thank you for posting this. This is the most absurd board topic I've ever seen on here, and that is a statement. LOL
I have to agree with B3N. No, it doesn't mean your life is over, or it shouldn't, but just because said hacker had something against the site, that doesn't give them the right to destroy it when others have the right to enjoy it and all of its features. However, I do have to agree with Sister Dawn that if the hacker has read this topic, they're probably happy that someone got angry about it, and let's be honest, you can call them whatever you want, and your words most likely mean less to them than their own life, and that's saying something. Sorry, I'm just being brutally honest, as others have done. Speaking of brutally honest, Dan, what a way to slap poster 14 in the face, not literally, of course. Lol.
Thanks for all the great posts on this topic, it's great that we can have a discussion like this, so far the Zone seems like a really cool site, thanks to everyone who has welcomed me.
Though I may have made jokes about the ridiculous nature of this supposed hacker, if a person really did this, it is not a ploy for attention but a property crime. Again it depends on whether the property (the servers and such) were simply destroyed or whether the data was harvested first. Either way said individual could be first traced and second prosecuted, locally for property crimes, but federally for identity theft if data was potentially taken. I am not commenting on the site itself by saying this: I don't have the investment there to do so. The park analogy is quite apt, actually, as what we call the virtual or online world is quite connected and part of our every day lives, much as offices and everything else are.
But irrespective of the site, its content, perhaps a gross lack of security, destroying it and/or data theft are crimes best left to the authorities to sort out.
I do hope they can get Blinknation back up though. I've got friends on there who aren't on here for whatever reason, whether they didn't want to join, couldn't or just prefered BN over the Zone.
I know this has already been mentioned, but the whole incident REALLY makes me wonder about BN's security and site backups. The admin is supposed to be employed in the computer field...?
Well any 12 year old today can slap up a social network or a forum. They have survices that automate the process. And about hackers:
I do hope he or she or them or it gets captured/shut down. It is against the law after all.
I agree with Margorp. Whether the site admins had prepared for this or not, it isn't right.
They didn't use any of the online templates mentioned by Margorp: Those put in WYSIWYG components for semi-decent UI's with enough skin options to dilute the masses into thinking they've got an original interface. BlinkNation seemed vary spartan and austere as a UI and I don't mean because it had no graphics. This site has few if any, but its Notes and message boards applications, among other things, present a rich and intuitive interface to the user, so much so that it's easy to conceive of them doing an API. However, BlinkNation at least a few months ago when I went to look at it, left me with ... huh?
I doubt they used such templates but my point was that in this day in age, social networks are a drop in the bucket.
don't people piss all over laws that protect on oline content anyway? they don't take misuse of computer laws seriously? that's the impression i get anyway. how many cases do you hear of people prosecuted for ripping down websties etc. i know we have gary macinnon here in the UK, but that is the last thing i heard of to do with hacking into pc's for a long time.
how i'd love just to say bwha hahahaha but i'm trying not to.
I say this because the blink nation community has been attacking this particular community for months now, and also seems to think they're sooo much better, and this happens and poofit's all gone. I can't say I've ever seen this happen to the zone dispight the lackings that have been mentioned about one particular person.
Also I agree that it seems to be assuming that the person is a zoner, but on that front can't we assume like before that all the banned zoners whent over to blink nation, and decided to have fun there? I'm not saying this is the case, but if we're doing all this attacking but not really attacking put that stick in your fire.
Also maybe this rebuild will convince them to beef up security. I hate typing in my first and last name in google and finding my blink nation profile. thanks.
hmmm. Hacking? cracking?
I'm sorry, I'm not interested with these thing. Rather I may kill my time with ... something else. hmmm?
but I'm just curious, what's the use of cracking/hacking a site?
Is there any monitary benefit with that? or, whether will that attract girls to have love on him?
I dono. I thought about it for few minutes but I couldn't find anything useful in cracking or hacking a site.
Raaj.
Probably had nothing better to do. That's often why people do stuff like that, whether there's monitary gain or not. As for me, I actually prefer Blinknation over the Zone and probably wouldn't come on here at all but for the fact that I have friends on here that I know nowhere else. And the same is true of Blinknation.
so you are basicly saying that if this site went down social life as u knew it will forever be gone?
Wow. I never found my Blinknation profile on google. If it ever comes back up, remind me to not include my full name. Lol.
No, that wasn't what I said. I said that I probably wouldn't come on here at all if it weren't for the fact that I have friends on here that aren't on Myspace or Blinknation or anywhere else.
Ocean dream, google stores data in a cache so some people will find the name until the data is cleared out.
Hmmm. I wondered why I don't use Google. LOL.
it's not just google that does this.
all search engines have cached databases: Margorp's right. Even Cuil does (http://www.cuil.com/)
Never heard of that one.