@ThoriumBR Ban evasion is against the rules. It frustrates me, but my hands are tied.
@HorvathZeldjinovic Please contact Stack Exchange to appeal your suspension if you wish. Otherwise, you can just wait out your original suspension and come back when it lifts. And I'm sorry. You're right, no one here had any problems with you.
@ThoriumBR We can't discuss the particulars for any specific user's suspension, but it's always the person behind the account who is suspended, but naturally only the account itself can be suspended since SE doesn't operate in any other way.
Having multiple accounts is fine as long as 1) They aren't used to evade suspensions and 2) They don't vote for each other or otherwise use each other to game the rep system.
so it's how it should be... although if someone makes separate accounts that don't interact with each other and have different personas, it's pretty difficult to link them and ban both...
yeah, I saw people burn themselves on twitter all the time by forgetting to replace accounts and masks... it's funny... it's the kind of mistake that you make once and burn years of hard work.
do you guys have any idea how difficult is to install windows 7 sp1 on a 15 year old pc that had made the mistake of installing windows 10 on? it took me 5 hours (and counting) to make it usable again...
first, win7 don't want to install because of the BCD. So I just boot on linux live, delete all partitions and reboot. and wind7 refuses to install because it's a MBR drive. I reboot linux, wipe the disk, make a gpt partition, reboot. win7 installs, but don't upgrade because it's win7 and sha2 isn't something it heard about.
I try to google something, but alas! TLS 1.0 is the only thing win7 knows, and it obviously don't work. I suspected the browser, tried to install vivaldi, the site loads pretty garbled, the installer does not download...
So I download a couple fixes by hand, install by hand, reboot, and windows update fires up and starts finding updates... for 40 minutes! and finds 172... now it's downloading them all... and now vivaldi works.
@forest I have a bunch of really old games that don't run nicely on linux, and don't play nicely with wine
next year I will probably buy a real computer... with ethereum migrating to proof of stake instead of proof of work it's possible to buy a gpu without mortgaging the house
@forest it probably have a discrete graphics card and probably more ram than I have...
just say "I don't care if it was a mining rig, because now it's going to a mining rig... how is the sustained hash rate?"
and they will either tell you the hash rate 9so it was a mining rig) or they will get caught by surprise and you can see it was a mining rig and he is lying
since I kicked up a fuss about a moderator (no names... cough) merging my account with two other accounts he claimed were sock puppets when in fact it was a voting ring
it's very easy to catch a voting ring... the voting graph is more or less random, but if you have a voting graph with the same nodes appearing, it's a voting ring.
or new accounts asking multiple questions and voting on a lot of answers
@nobody You must be patient. Bide your time, create at least 20-50 of accounts at random intervals, use them to vote on random questions every once in a while, have them ask questions (duplicates, GPT-generated, who knows) then after a period of more than a year, you start voting more often on your alt accounts' questions, still maintaining votes on other random accounts. Boom, successful if not super useful voting ring
@belkarx or you could just grab some info out of one of the most recent password dumps and try the email/pw against SE and build up a massive voting army of real users that are none the wiser to your intentions ...
highly illegal ofcourse, but prob the most clandestine way of doing it assuming you use multiple proxies too
Hm... so I think I've discovered something quite bad that's bringing my personal "always full disclosure" policy into question. Simply put, an emergency crisis support chat line seems to have a vulnerability that led to it getting hacked, with conversations logged to files that anyone can access. That's a serious privacy issue.
@belkarx again, if your using proxies and diff usernames each times you prob wouldnt trip any alerts if you where careful
@FireQuacker discussing potential weaknesses and vulnerabilities of anything is kinda the whole point of this room. And this weakness isnt limited to SE, but to any service where its users have bad Opsec and use the same password for multiple accounts.
@forest did you publicly disclose the vulnerability? Was the agency given enough time to fix said issue before it was disclosed? Did it get hacked before or after the vulnerability was made public?
@JourneymanGeek and you can always trust corporations, in fact they are more trustworthy than any other entity around ... as long as you are trusting them to do whatever is in the best interest of short term gains for their shareholders at the expense of the user base and public at large.
@forest if its already hacked, the dmg is already done ... report it.
Its shitty for someone now or shitty for someone later ... reporting it now gives the person who exploited it less time to do whatever they where going to do w/ the data.
I would much rather know than not know even if I was in that data
I mean think about it, would you rather first find out by have that company tell you hey we had a breach or some random f-tard hit you up via email extorting you w/ the data they obtained for money.
Is the data still accessible? If it is, reporting it means there isn't a fix, and that's absolutely not the way to go. If is isn't, I'd hit up a mental health professional to gauge the impact of disclosure, and work from there. Like @CaffeineAddiction said, better find out from the line itself than some random, but if there isn't personally identifying information, the risk of that depends on the size/diversity of the userbase
@belkarx as much as i think this is a good approach, it could backfire and have forest branded as the evil haxx0r that tried to abuse its powers to do whatever haxx0rs do...
