talk like me

[4:54:17 am] mikey:if we could kiss, do you think it would be nice?
[4:54:43 am] some woman:yeah, probably
[4:54:53 am] mikey:that’s wonderful.
[4:55:01 am] mikey:I agree completely.
[4:55:17 am] mikey:It would be magic from the heart of funk and bass.
[4:55:27 am] some woman:that’s good to know.

Normally, when I see someone post a thread that includes multiple sentence terminators in it’s subject, I believe that the thread starter is exaggerating the topic at hand. However, in this thread, it would appear that the poster is completely right. Only problem is, only a quarter of the forum’s user base understands why.

You see, the block of error message shows a very serious problem taking place on wht. A php script that’s masked as a .jpg file is being invisibly accessed by a php script on the server of wht, and it’s passing along three variables any time the user logs in: 1) The user’s username, 2) The user’s password, and 3) The user’s email address. After that, there isn’t a completely clear idea of what is being done with the data, but common sense tells me that the data is being sent out in an email to someone who is collecting wht accounts for some purpose.

How did it get there? Well, this is where it gets interesting. About a month ago, I was contacted by this fag who calls himself masteritx. This boring virgin who comes to the internet via a telephone line in some third world sandbox. This guy went on to tell me that he hacked wht, and to prove it he sent me an email from a webserver of wht’s, with the headers of the email clearly showing the email as being sent via a php script on a webserver of webhostingtalk. Every few weeks, he likes to contact me telling me he’s doing something new with the hack he put down on wht. What’s fucked up about it is, when he did tell inet about the vulnerabilities, he was registered, and those fucks actually banned him when they found out about the compromise. Real nice, ban the guy who offered to help you close a security hole. But, I’m not sure how masteritx went about it. He could have tried to extort them, and that could have triggered the ban, but I’m not really sure what happened. All I know is that he told me he was trying to reach wht’s admins, and a few days later he was banned. After that, he tried to tell me that he had obtained a copy of wht’s database, and that he was going to sell it to somebody.

Back to the technical specifics of the attack, the error that was posted on the thread is as follows:

Warning: fopen(http://www.webhostingtalk.com/store/images/126928744_lg.jpg?user=calamine&pass=xxxxxx&email=xxxxxx%40gmail.com): failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden in /includes/functions.php(2651) : eval()’d code(1) : eval()’d code on line 5

When the user logged in, the php script login.php calls a file under includes/function.php, and within that file is code which uses the php fopen function to download a file at http://webhostingtalk.com/store/images/126928744_lg.jpg while passing the username, password, and email address variables back down to the page. How did the 126928744_lg.jpg file get there? Well, my bet is that when the wiki was compromised, masteritx put in a few backdoors in directories he found were chmod 777, because those are directories that the webserver would be able to write to. With those backdoors, he probably wrote a php script, disguised it as a .jpg file which sends him an email with the variables the user sends when they login.

Currently, one admin has posted, Dennis. Dennis has posted to tell my friend and associate Steven that he should be posting elsewhere, and not “insulting” wht by posting information about the hack. I find inet’s disregard for user security a lot more insulting than what steven has posted. More information is probably going to come as the days go on, but the side of intelligence and security has been gaining support, with only a few idiots stepping in to defend wht’s admins.

Some fuckneck has been sending photos.cx a shit load of abuse complaints bitching specifically about screenshots of porn, porn from companies who have hired him.

If you’ve ever seen those little galleries of thumbnails that people make from movies with ‘media player classic’, you know what I’m talking about. This guy has reported at least a hundred of them, and sends me at least 3 emails a day telling me to remove them.

lately, i’ve de-prioritized every email he’s sent me by 5 days, because I believe his complaints are frivilous. He’s just a fuckneck who is abusing the law to bank a dollar from people who are far more morally bankrupt than the people who are uploading to my service.

Which brings us to my point. The dmca is fucking stupid. The internet was a much better place before existed, and I believe the no attention was paid to the possibilities of fair use when it was signed into law.

I’m not a real firm follower of the law, and I’ve never been afraid to break it whenever I felt like it. I don’t believe the law should be a reason to not do something, it should only be used as a loose guideline for determining if something should be done. If you can justify breaking the law, or don’t believe the law’s existence was properly justified by the government, you shouldn’t be afraid to break it. If you were right to break the law, nobody will be affected. I seriously doubt anyone is losing money because I let some people upload some thumb sized images porn. Hell, the creators of the porn give more content than that out for free on their websites.

ahahaha

On 4/20/2008, I went to meet a girl I’d met in the casual encounters section of craigslist. org. Her name was francesca, we’d never met before, never even spoke on the phone, however we did chat online, and exchange pictures. She’d known me for maybe 1 week before we met up, but she and I were both pretty anxious to get together.

So, I gussied myself up in my favorite shirt and pants, made myself look the best I could, and took the afternoon metra train out to her place in suburbs. Of course I was a little nervous, and a little anxious as well, I tried to throw logic at myself, and told myself ‘if you don’t think positively of yourself nobody will think positively of you’, however it was still being offset by the fact that I believed I would be blown off by that girl, and due to go home depressed for another day.

I eventually arrived in her house, and was my usual, quiet self. She was talkative, and I only responded to what she was saying. That’s one problem I have, I never bring up new subjects with strangers. Possibly because I recognize I don’t think about normal things, and that I believe certain people might take offense.

Well, I sat there in her living room, we talked a bit, smoked a little, and then we realized that our lighters were dead. No problem, there’s a party store a few blocks from her apartment. So, we walk over there, buy lighters, walk back to her apartment.

Then when we got to her apartment, sat back down, smoked, and I began to have strange cravings for orange soda, but i never mentioned them. Then, she just broke out of nowhere and asked “So um, what’s the matter dude?”, “what? nothing, what’s wrong?”, “you’re just acting kind of weird… um… do you know what aspergers disorder is?”.

This one line took grip in my mind. “what? uhh uhhh uhhhh no… no i don’t think i have that. um… i don’t know” I replied. Quickly, my mind began to degrade towards the worst feeling in the world. I’d been accused of having a mental disorder by a date. She then got a phone call from her friend, and she actually began describing me to him. Out loud. As I began to break into an anxiety attack, as she spoke to him, She would eventually get off the phone. I was still in shock from the amateur diagnoses I had been given, as I know people who havs aspergers, and it’s definitely not something that I am comfortable having.

She got off the phone, and we just had a short conversation about what’s wrong with me, and I began to unravel. Of couse I’m high, she is too, but I just began to rant obsessively about what was happening, when she suddenly kissed me, and the afternoon was on from there.

If she hadn’t kissed me, and nothing had happened, I would have probably gone home and killed myself that day.

We would end up meeting a few more times, had a good time, but eventually she lost interest in me, and we haven’t seen each other for a few months now.

Then, several weeks later I was standing in the kitchen with my roommate allison, and she accused me of having the disorder as I well. This, and francesca’s prior accusation combined in my mind, and slowly began to re-degrade me. Yeah, I got laid immediately after being accused by francesca, but I’m never going to have sex with allison, so there’s no way to undo the effect of what she said.

If you think you know someone who has a psychological disorder, don’t tell them about it. Especially if it’s a disorder that’ll affect how that person acts in social situations. Just don’t. It was pretty obvious to me that something’s wrong with my mind before either of these women knew me, It’s probably obvious to the friend that you think has the same disorder. By diagnosing us out loud, you are essentially rushing us to figure out what’s wrong, which is likely to cause even more problems for us.

ugh.

What am i even doing here

I don’t even know why I keep the blog online, because it’s a testament to everything that is wrong with me

I don’t like you damn kids anymore. Kids today don’t know how to have fun. It’s a generation raised in youth group, none of them know how to have fun, or go out and self destruct in gloriously hillarious sequences of being. My generation didn’t do shit either. I think maybe the generation before me was into that kinda fun, and probably the generations from the mid 70s to their class’s year.

I turn 25 in about 12 days. It’ll be a nice year. I’m thinking about finding a pawn shop so i can buy an acoustic guitar, so i can learn to strum it aggressively in a decent manner whilst screaming lyrics about the problems society has, so i can complete my dream of being a locally notorious musician. I doubt it’ll happen. But, I will definitely get that guitar.

here’s an mp3 about what i’ve been up to since my last update

good night

If your dns server responds to a query requesting an MX record, you have accepted a solicitation.

They say that he has undergone several psychological evaluations and has been determined sane, however they could not provide me with a figure on the ratio of sane to insane vietnam POWs.

here’s something for you

steadfast hosting appears to have opened up shop a month ago, breaking away from their primary operation, paintball hosting.

This appears to be the third company who decided to use “stead” in their name. First being the company I work for, steadfast networks, and then another company called steadcom popped up. However, I’m not as bothered by steadcom as I am by steadfasthosting.

I suppose we could just let the company run it’s course, and inevitably fail because the owner more than likely doesn’t have any idea what he’s doing. That’s what happens with most companies who aren’t founded by people intelligent enough to come up with their own product. He might get a sale or two off our reputation by clueless newbies who believe his company is the “steadfast” everyone talks about, but there really isn’t any way he’ll ever succeed in the long run.

Or we could go to ICANN and get the name turned over to us, since he’s blatantly violating our trademarks.

Regardless, this should all be pretty fun to witness. Any way it ends, it’s bound to be full of lols.