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(164 votes) Published: Jul 16, 2006 3:07 p.m. In 8 Favorites Lists Viewed 1609 times
Not Even The Force Protects Them This Time
Note: Easier to read, full article is here After I sent out 158 thousand messages, they got a little pissed...
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That’s a total ban right there. If I try to access that site in my house, that’s the message I get.
Now mind you, I can easily use a proxy server, like the one you use to go on Myspace in school, and view the real site again.
The site called the Star Wars Combine, is a roleplaying site, with about 2000 active members. It is a also a game, but a pretty shitty one at best. There is no combat or fighting. It’s mostly text-based. The only thing you can do is fly around and trade. When you signup you have to pick your character’s name. And since it is in a Star Wars universe, it has to be something really weird. I chose the name Davad Kran.
Step 1- Write A Program, Exploit A Glitch
In the game they have a form of money called CP. I was banned for a month for writing a program and because I knew a bug in the game that could get infinite CP. My first ban is posted here:
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At this point, I was kinda pissed. How many people do you know can say they have been banned from a Star Wars site for cheating. But either way, I wasn’t gonna let this slide. Thirty days went by and I was back in the game. First step, start scamming people. Now as I mentioned, the only thing you can do on this site is fly around and trade. I had a ship, so I decided to trade.
Step 2- Scam People In Trading
Nothing makes a Star Wars nerd angrier than stealing his X-Wing. Here’s my favorite chat log with some trader that I hated in the game before I was banned. Me=scando:
[14:34] [scando] fs: factory, willing to trade for stocks =(
[14:38] * Randar pokes scando, hows said factory doing and what would you give for it?
[14:38] [scando] sold it to jesfa
[14:38] [Randar] or how much would i need to give for it
[14:38] [Randar] bleh
[14:38] [Zettai_Kun] never deal with Jesfa
[14:38] [scando] actually
***MeanWhile In A Private Message***
[Jesfa] hey
[Jesfa] I’ll trade stocks for it
[scando] hey
[scando] how many?
[Jesfa] Cerberus or Magnaguard?
[scando] umm
[scando] cerberus is okay i guess
[scando] how many?
[Jesfa] 1000?
[scando] ok, do you want to use a middle or something??
[Jesfa] 1000 = 500k (value)
[Jesfa] Nah
[Jesfa] handle?
[scando] Sholan Samero
[Jesfa] Jesfa Ackmin
[scando] kk
[Jesfa] sent
[scando] sweet kk sending
[scando] o shit turns out i really dont have an account, i just picked a random name =(
[Jesfa] ?
[scando] davad kran alert broski
***Back In The Room***
[14:39] [Jesfa] scando you moron
[14:39] [Corin_Zamasee] FLOOD!
[14:39] [Jesfa] It’s Kran
[14:39] [Jesfa] you penis
[14:39] [scando] lata suckaz
Sholan Samero was just a random name. Jesfa sent 1000 stocks to this account worth half a million and he’s never getting them back. Doesn’t that just suck.
Step 3- If A Dumbass Uses The Same Password, Steal Their Stuff
After a couple scams, I started talking on the chat rooms, and some guy wanted a web site host for free, so I let him use mine. His in game name was Eli Greenberg. When I made his account for the website, I asked him what password he wanted to use. He said that he wanted all his passwords to be "chester". It only took me two seconds to realize that he might be using the same password for his webhosting and his Combine account. So I headed right over to the SWCombine and what do you know, the password worked. Time to cash in, right! I waited until around midnight and made off with 22 Million In-Game Money.
When I came back from school the next day, I saw the familar screen that I received a couple months back.
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I logged in as a guest and found this delightful message:
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To sum it up for you, I’m no longer allowed to play that Star Wars game. Yes, I know, the shock, the horror. So, I decided to email assistants@swcombine.com. This is part of the response I got:
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Look at what the President has to say about this.
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Excerpt from Oval Office Address, June 8 2006
President George W. Bush "U.S. forces delivered justice to the most wanted terrorist in Iraq. Now Zarqawi has met his end, and this violent man will never murder again. But however, now that we have destroyed one terrorist, a new problem has formed. Terrorists, gay people, and the bird flu are still trying to destroy America. One specific terrorist is the rise of Davad Kran. The man has continually bought out the Galactic Market on Hapes and is a threat to the entire galaxy. He must be stopped before he destroys the internets. Bird flu. We are now redirecting all of our resources to stop this man. If we don’t stop him from making the internets an unpleasant place for Star Wars nerds, then by God, who will."
Give me a break. Stealing someone’s X-Wing isn’t a federal crime (yet). I wasn’t done with this
site yet though. This was just outright stupid, cyberterrorist my ass. I’m sure they’ll lock me up and throw away the key for this one. Now may I redirect our attention to Star Wars nerd site #2. Don’t worry, I’ll get back to number one.
When I try to go to www.hapes.org, heres what I see.
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Step 4- Buy Everything On The Star Wars eBay Market
Yep, you guessed it. Banned from here too. To try and scare me, I get a redirect to the FBI cyberterrorist headquaters. Hapes.org was a place where the people on the Star Wars Combine could sell their ships, sorta like an ebay for them. The first day it opened, I made an account and joyfully bought every single item posted, because just like eBay, you don’t need to pay as soon as you buy. I could go on their right now and bid six million dollars for a sandwich that looks like Jesus. Nothing’s stopping me except the fact they might want payment sometime soon. However in this Star Wars universe, I’m banned. So I can do whatever the hell I want. I bought 97 items on the market so it was empty, here’s a screenie.
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Step 5- Send Out A Couple Messages
After this, I decided I would send out a couple messages. Using my handy autorefresher plugin for FireFox, in about two hours time I sent 158,522 messages. Here’s a screenie I stopped to take while doing it, before I was rudely banned.
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Here’s also part of a chat log about the event:
[03:07] [Kirit]I have just deleted a total of 158522 comunit spam messages. The user, who had three accounts, has been banned.
I headed over to the message boards to see if anyone was getting my mail. Here’s the better parts of the thread:
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One guy would delete a message, and he would receive two more to replace it. And on top of that they
called me a "hacker". That’s great, apparently all you need is a plugin from firefox and you can be the leetest thing on the block too. But I wasn’t even finished here. Now let’s tie these two sites together.
Step 6- Reset The Passwords
On the hape’s site you can request someone’s password by typing their username in the box and it will display the message, "An email has been sent to (insert email here)." Using my autotyper and autoclicker, I requested the emails for the more known, famous players. Then I headed back to the Combine to their password retrieval. In order to get a password from them, you needed the email account. Well, I have all their email accounts now thanks to Hapes, so basically, I opened up 35 windows of internet, and requested the password for 35 players. However, I turned on the autorefresher and every single second, 35 players were players were getting their password reset. By this I mean, it would change every second, because it generates a new one, and then emails it to you. Eventually, the server got full to the point it could no longer send out emails. Here is a log of the chatroom for the Combine, when they had realized what happened.
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[02:37] --Global-- A number of players are currently having trouble with a banned user changing their Combine password through the Lost Password feature. If you are experiencing such problems, please change your preferred e-mail to something less known in your Account Settings. If you are unable to log in as a :result of the password changes, PM Syn for assistance. Thanks.
[02:38] [Kirit] davad kran again?
[02:38] [Cypher_Diaz] hmm, wonder whos changeing pws
[02:38] [Ben_Pon] Davad Kran
[02:38] [Kirit] he really needs another hobby
[02:39] [Luke_Starsoarer] No shit
[02:39] [Ben_Pon] He’s been hitting the new Hapan GM all night.
[02:39] [Mr_Homo] IP ban?
[02:39] [Mr_Homo] Bullet to the head?
[02:39] [Mr_Homo] Trojan attack his HD?
[02:39] [Cypher_Diaz] with a really kinky message?
[02:39] [Ben_Pon] My understanding is not only his IP is banned, but his entire ISP.
[02:39] [Mr_Homo] Then how is he getting around this?
[02:39] [Syn] He doesn’t currently have a SWC account, so there is nothing to ban
[02:39] [Ben_Pon] That I don’t know.
[02:39] [Mr_Homo] Ban his face
[02:39] [Mr_Homo] Or something
[02:39] * Davik (~DarthReck@SWC-IRC.C8915CD0DAE7A6.SWC) has joined #SWC-Members
[02:40] [Ben_Pon] I agree we should rearrange his face. But oh well.
[02:40] [Auguani_Wetel] ISP ban? wow
[02:40] [Mr_Homo] Or better yet, someone hack into his computer, and fill his HDD with beastiality porn
[02:40] [Cypher_Diaz] lol
[02:40] [Mr_Homo] I love that idea
[02:40] [Mr_Homo] I mean sure, masking the transfer of 40+ gigs of porn is tough
[02:40] [Mr_Homo] But I’m sure RB can do it
[03:03] [Cypher_Diaz] yay sim news
[03:03] [Kirit] davad kran news?
[03:04] [Cypher_Diaz] lol they’ve disabled lost password feature to stop him.
[03:09] [Trygo] he emailed all the topsites to get rid of the cpmaster
[03:09] [Cypher_Diaz] oh FUCK HIM
[03:09] [Kirit] again, nothing against the game
[03:16] [Cypher_Diaz] kind’ve ironic, the GM that got Veynom advertiseing gets raped, whereas unadvertised ones continue on...
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They disabled the password request for the night and I was given the 403 ban that you saw at the beginning of the article.
Step 7- Make A Few Fake Accounts
After that, I headed to Hapes.org, registered 50 members who signed up for the combine and but didn’t signup for Hapes. Oh yeah, I forgot the damn passwords I used for their accounts. And I didn’t set an email so they can retrieve their pass.
Here’s a screenie:
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I added as many members as far as that scroll bar can go down. Too bad they have a weird password and no way to retrieve it. That’s a shame. That’s a damn shame.
Step 8- Turn The Table, Try And Get Them Banned
The Combine approved of a program called CPMaster. This program automatically voted for them on best game sites. People would see how many votes the Combine has and would join. Too bad all those votes were coming from a robot and not really made by players. I sent out a couple emails to the voting sites and got the reply I wanted to hear:
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As you can see, they weren’t to happy about it. A couple days later, the program was shutdown. Players were mad about this one because they used the program to vote for the Combine. Every single time they voted, they got money. So now they lose a huge amount of votes and the lazy players don’t get any money.
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End, here’s the picture that sums up the entire article though.
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Jul 16, 2006 4:55 pm - "U.S. forces delivered justice to the most wanted terrorist in Iraq. Now Zarqawi has met his end, and this violent man will never murder again. But however, now that we have destroyed one terrorist, a new problem has formed. Terrorists, gay people, and the bird flu are still trying to destroy America. One specific terrorist is the rise of Davad Kran. The man has continually bought out the Galactic Market on Hapes and is a threat to the entire galaxy. He must be stopped before he destroys the internets. Bird flu. We are now redirecting all of our resources to stop this man. If we don’t stop him from making the internets an unpleasant place for Star Wars nerds, then by God, who will."
LMFAO GOOD ONE!!!!!! 5* for u. great egg
[scando] o shit turns out i really dont have an account, i just picked a random name =(
[Jesfa] ?
[scando] davad kran alert broski
***Back In The Room***
[14:39] [Jesfa] scando you moron
[14:39] [Corin_Zamasee] FLOOD!
[14:39] [Jesfa] It’s Kran
[14:39] [Jesfa] you penis
[14:39] [scando] lata suckaz
LMFAO fuckin funny this was a grat story nuttin better then nerds gettin screwed. i would have givin u a 20* for it but it only gos up to 5. 5* for this egg
Jul 16, 2006 8:52 pm - mozilla.com
it was an addon for firefox, I’ll link it later and send it to you, when mozilla comes back online, their site is down for a bit
Jul 23, 2006 10:20 am - if i was weasle i would clone 45 of you and appoint them all site admins..Then RE would be a mcuh happier place.. FUnny story 5
Nov 26, 2006 11:54 am - thanks to the autorefresher I could own this thread, but nah. It was awesome 5*. You included everything, you get a 5* on your profile.
Dec 29, 2006 5:25 pm - haha! i like the whole-
like a book, with pictures,
lol
Quote:
"U.S. forces delivered justice to the most wanted terrorist in Iraq. Now Zarqawi has met his end, and this violent man will never murder again. But however, now that we have destroyed one terrorist, a new problem has formed. Terrorists, gay people, and the bird flu are still trying to destroy America. One specific terrorist is the rise of Davad Kran. The man has continually bought out the Galactic Market on Hapes and is a threat to the entire galaxy. He must be stopped before he destroys the internets. Bird flu. We are now redirecting all of our resources to stop this man. If we don’t stop him from making the internets an unpleasant place for Star Wars nerds, then by God, who will."
Jul 06, 2007 3:40 am - I’m giving you 5* for this cause I nearly fell out my chair laughing. How stupid can these Star Wars geeks be?!? Any way dude. Its a funny story. Thumbs Up.
Dec 28, 2007 8:28 am - Dude!!!!!! YOU ARE A GENIUS! I read this and I was laughing for an hour! Seriously! %* for oyu and on your profile! You rock!!!!!!
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