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Re: Ozpolitic is under attack
Reply #45 - Dec 21^st, 2014 at 6:01pm

Neferti wrote on Dec 21^st, 2014 at 5:50pm:

Brian,

It is worthless trying to communicate with a person like Aussie who needed to get his "guru" to show him how to capture a screen shot ..... only a couple of years ago.

Discussing public proxy stuff is beyond his computer literacy.

NOBODY in their right mind would pay to use something like "Hide my Ass" to be able to ABUSE people on a Forum. It just isn't a sane thing to do.

There is, in my mind at least, as well as others, a strong correlation between the return of Matty and the sudden posting of very long, blank messages and numerous posts made under various pseudonyms. Correlation isn't causation, I agree but it is strange this starts to happen when everybody starts calling Matty on his sock-puppetry.

The rules that Aussie has suggested are a sensible and measured response. They are a minor inconvenience, nothing more.

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Someone said we could not judge a person's Aboriginality on their skin colour. Why isn't that applied in the matter of Pascoe? Tsk, tsk, tsk... Roll Eyes

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Reply #46 - Dec 21^st, 2014 at 6:36pm

longweekend58 wrote on Dec 21^st, 2014 at 5:59pm:

Redmond Neck wrote on Dec 21^st, 2014 at 5:56pm:

Neferti wrote on Dec 21^st, 2014 at 5:43pm:

Aussie has been known to be extremely CONFUSED because some people use the same IP with a different ID. He seems to get IP and ID confused.

Please explain genius!

another person who doesn't understand how a person could post on.. *shock horror* multiple IP addresses??? here's a clue. you ALL do (unless you are on static IPs which you have to pay for anyhow)

Puhlease, let's not get bogged down on what is nothing more than my lack of care in using www correct terminology. Everyone is aware that if you want to hide where you are posting from, there are many options including hide my arse to assist you do so. It isn't rocket science. If someone posts 'from' France and then from Canada or the USA it is obvious they are hiding something....like being banned etc.

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Re: Ozpolitic is under attack
Reply #47 - Dec 21^st, 2014 at 6:36pm

longweekend58 wrote on Dec 21^st, 2014 at 5:59pm:

Redmond Neck wrote on Dec 21^st, 2014 at 5:56pm:

Neferti wrote on Dec 21^st, 2014 at 5:43pm:

Aussie has been known to be extremely CONFUSED because some people use the same IP with a different ID. He seems to get IP and ID confused.

Please explain genius!

another person who doesn't understand how a person could post on.. *shock horror* multiple IP addresses??? here's a clue. you ALL do (unless you are on static IPs which you have to pay for anyhow)

Depends on several factors but essentially most posters' IP numbers are basically static.

Most ISP's utilise a Proxy Server so from the perspective of an external observer, most ISP subscribers will appear as if they are emanating from the same or several similar IP addresses.

If your ISP doesn't utilise a Proxy Server, then unless you turn your ADSL modem/Router off and on frequently, once assigned an IP number, from within the range allocated to the ISP, you will retain the one IP number for long periods of time.

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Someone said we could not judge a person's Aboriginality on their skin colour. Why isn't that applied in the matter of Pascoe? Tsk, tsk, tsk... Roll Eyes

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Reply #51 - Dec 21^st, 2014 at 6:47pm

longweekend58 wrote on Dec 21^st, 2014 at 5:59pm:

Redmond Neck wrote on Dec 21^st, 2014 at 5:56pm:

Neferti wrote on Dec 21^st, 2014 at 5:43pm:

Aussie has been known to be extremely CONFUSED because some people use the same IP with a different ID. He seems to get IP and ID confused.

Please explain genius!

another person who doesn't understand how a person could post on.. *shock horror* multiple IP addresses??? here's a clue. you ALL do (unless you are on static IPs which you have to pay for anyhow)

Read before you post -Same IP dickhead!

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Reply #52 - Dec 21^st, 2014 at 6:48pm

Black Orchid wrote on Dec 21^st, 2014 at 5:58pm:

Listing people willy nilly who you think MAY be responsible is a dangerous and irresponsible thing to be doing imo.

interestingly BO.. no one said that on this thread...

http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1419022787/5

the op mentions TWO people...

I couldnt agree more.. if you are going to finger someone then at least put up some thing of evidence.....to prove what you are saying....

in this instance there is a lot of strange things going on...even just now the whole thing shut down.....

for all we know it could infect our computers.....

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Reply #53 - Dec 21^st, 2014 at 6:59pm

Aussie wrote on Dec 21^st, 2014 at 5:30pm:

Bobby. wrote on Dec 21^st, 2014 at 5:21pm:

John Smith wrote on Dec 21^st, 2014 at 3:09pm:

it seems the Islam board is being hit again right now....

I still can't access the thread I started in the Islam board here:

www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1418767874/45#45

This hacker really stuffed things up.

All the posts from
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need to be deleted.

Yeas they do. This is obviously the work of jackmountain aka mattywisk and aka a cast of thousands (also aka possibly the permanently banned IQSRLOW) and I really hope FD adopts a Policy of:

1. Manual approval of new registrants by a GMod.
2. Regard any registrant seeking Membership using an obviously dodgy email addy with great suspicion, and
3. As soon as someone is detected posting (or registering) using a proxy IP, they are permanently banned.

Where are the moderators to fix this up?

Xmas holidays?

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Re: Ozpolitic is under attack
Reply #54 - Dec 21^st, 2014 at 6:59pm

Ex Dame Pansi wrote on Dec 21^st, 2014 at 5:20pm:

Redmond Neck wrote on Dec 21^st, 2014 at 3:47pm:

At times the whole Forum is stuffed, cant get on to it.

Does anyone have the ability to contact FD. Phone? Email?

My suggestion is lock new membership and then delete all these new twits!

The forum was down four times today that I know of.

Yes, I've had intermittent issues as well.

Slow all day, and often the site loads so slowly that it basically times out and I get a page not found error.

Trying again in a few minutes seemed to work and then it's usually fine. For a while.

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Reply #55 - Dec 21^st, 2014 at 7:05pm

cods wrote on Dec 21^st, 2014 at 6:48pm:

Black Orchid wrote on Dec 21^st, 2014 at 5:58pm:

Listing people willy nilly who you think MAY be responsible is a dangerous and irresponsible thing to be doing imo.

interestingly BO.. no one said that on this thread...

http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1419022787/5

the op mentions TWO people...

I couldnt agree more.. if you are going to finger someone then at least put up some thing of evidence.....to prove what you are saying....

in this instance there is a lot of strange things going on...even just now the whole thing shut down.....

for all we know it could infect our computers.....

We obviously have different priorities.

I consider listing people and claiming they may have hacked a website/forum to be considerably more extreme than talking about who may or may not bicker on a forum.

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Reply #56 - Dec 21^st, 2014 at 7:25pm

I haven't tried a dedicated proxy, but I do often use TOR.

With TOR, I can post here with no problems (or could, last time I did so).

But I did try, as a test, to see if I could create an account using TOR.

It was a no-go.

So, intentionally or not, you couldn't use TOR to set up a sock if you'd been banned.

Of course, things change, and that may no longer be the case.

EDIT: Posting this while using TOR, seems to be working fine.

But TOR, by its nature, is slower than a 'straight' connection, so that combined with
the slowness that everyone's going crook about, makes it VERY painful to use.

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Re: Ozpolitic is under attack
Reply #57 - Dec 21^st, 2014 at 7:29pm

cods wrote on Dec 21^st, 2014 at 6:48pm:

in this instance there is a lot of strange things going on...even just now the whole thing shut down.....

for all we know it could infect our computers.....

Spare a thought for poor old Aunt Herbie.

He'll be updating his operating system and installing new anti-spyware/spam/virus programs as we speak.

He'll be restarting his computer well into the night.

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Reply #58 - Dec 21^st, 2014 at 7:32pm

Black Orchid wrote on Dec 21^st, 2014 at 7:05pm:

We obviously have different priorities.

I consider listing people and claiming they may have hacked a website/forum to be considerably more extreme than talking about who may or may not bicker on a foru

bickering or abuse???... internet sabotage or abuse of privilege ????...

hackers and terrorists are everywhere these days... since when is it it extreme to name names.. if they have nothing to hide .. they can say so...

it is all ABUSE no matter which way you look at it....

well I think so..

IQ seems to have a reputation for upsetting things.. I wouldnt know I have only had the pleasure a couple of times....but from what I have seen...I didnt like and if this person is coming here disguised I prefer to know about it...

and on this forum there shouldnt be anything dangerous about that.......

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Reply #59 - Dec 21^st, 2014 at 7:34pm

Don't know what the reason is, but I started having 'slow-down' problems late yesterday.

Was denied even a connection, at various times throughout today.

Managed to connect about 2/3 min ago, after not being to get access a couple of times.

Still can't access that P3 Merry Christmas that was mentioned earlier....

Also page turn is rather slow which is annoying.
Anymore problems and I'm outta here for the night.

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