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Jan 07, 09 - 12:52 pm Comment from: Gman

I saw that..I was watchin the feed and when I read SJ had died....my heart stopped for a moment..

Jan 07, 09 - 12:57 pm Comment from: IKON

I saw that too + the shocking photo of youknowwhat if you were there too.

Wanna bet they run their webserver on a Windows box somewhere in there.

Jan 07, 09 - 01:03 pm Comment from: mike k.

the idea is pretty funny. the execution left a little to be desired.

Jan 07, 09 - 01:04 pm Comment from: Cubert

Offensive language??? What's wrong with saying that Steve Jobs is happy and likes roosters?

Jan 07, 09 - 01:08 pm Comment from: Cubert

@Driver,
The article that MDN links to states that MacRumors site password was posted on the 4chan hacker site the day before.

was watching it live, saw the jobs was dead remark and new right away they they were hacked.

they started slow with their inserts, then just went crazy.

I really enjoy that feed every year and was pissed some idiots ruined it for me.

they are geeks. I am a geek. I get it. I can be done you and you are cool because you can.

boring, pointless and stupid nonetheless.

go impress the non-geeks somewhere else.

@Cubert

there was more, including some vulgarities in Polish.

I sure hope Arn tracks down how the password was revealed. Maybe even a dictionary attack had been used prior to Tuesday.

MDN's feed was a little slower with updates, but it stayed online, which is better that I can say for some previous years. I don't remember MacRumors posting an article about how MDN's servers just couldn't handle the load during the keynote. That happened at least twice that I remember.

Jan 07, 09 - 01:17 pm Comment from: mike k.

coolfactor, relax.

MDN's server meltdowns are not news in the same sense that water being wet is not news.

Arn keeps saying hacked, but apparently he accidently left the admin panel open after configuring for the live feed and all the admin usernames and passwords were in the admin panel in plain text. When someone from 4Chan stumbled across the open admin panel, the usernames and passwords were immediately posted to 4Chan.

Doesn't sound like a hack to me.

I don't understand... I think their attack on the Church of Scientology is great and worthy of time. But that was just stupid and unbelievably childish yesterday.

Jan 07, 09 - 01:51 pm Comment from: Macintosher

@mike k.

It may come as a surprise to all of us, but scientists have proved (or at least, I'm told so) that water is not technically wet. Why they did this, I do not know. It doesn't make any difference to the fact that getting soaked in the rain is unpleasant, but it does suggest that what most of we know is wrong.

The above seems perfectly truthful, because I have heard many independent chemists inform me that the above conclusion is truthful. I withhold my sources.

So what you said has more behind it than you thought!

May MDN have better success in future.

Jan 07, 09 - 01:52 pm Comment from: HMCIV

The second I saw that feed, I bought a boatload of Apple Stock options. Dang it! Suckered again.

That was by far the funniest thing that happened yesterday. It added a nice bit of humor to what was a very dull keynote. The uppity admins at Mac Rumors needed to be put in their place anyway. They take themselves and their self importance WAY too seriously and this incident showed what clowns they truely are by leaving their passwords totally exposed in the clear.

I wanted to know how that happened and were they hosting the site on a Mac XServe or Windows server. No one has disclosed that information. It may have been just that they figured out Mac Rumors' password.

It's been stated on several sites, including in the MacRumors forums and by posters in this thread, that someone at MacRumors failed to close the admin panel. All the admin usernames and passwords were on the admin panel in plain text. Someone from 4Chan looking to make trouble stumbled across the open admin panel and posted the usernames and passwords found there to 4Chan.

Not a hack. Just very, very bad security on MacRumors part.

almost as good as Obamas Twitter site being hacked

Hackers = tiny weenies

Jan 07, 09 - 03:16 pm Comment from: Haiku

I think what they did was totally wrong. No I just changed my mind, it was AWESOME! MACS FOREVER lol.

Wha? Hold on. No don't hold on. J/K. HAHAHA Wow. Lozers.

Jan 07, 09 - 03:22 pm Comment from: MacintoshSoftwareList.com

I watched it live too. It must have been an inside job. How did they get the password? I guess it could be the hosting company that let it slip.

Tasteless. Sophomoric. And those are the good things I have to say.

It might seem like a minor prank to some, but MacRumors lost advertising revenue because of it. I hope there might be a way that a criminal investigation could be launched, and a civil suit brought against these punks. If they can be caught and brought to justice, it might make some of these frigtards think twice.

Jan 07, 09 - 04:11 pm Comment from: Shadowself

This is NOT funny.

Take this simple scenario that I'm sure played out in a few cases...
Someone watching that feed that had Apple stock. They see that Jobs is dead. They immediately call their broker to sell all their Apple stock to get ahead of the sell off. Then they see the retraction. They then call their broker to cancel the order, but they can't because it's already been executed and instead they have to buy that stock back. Through both these transactions they have to pay broker fees.

The government should prosecute these guys to the fullest extent of the law.

Jan 07, 09 - 04:28 pm Comment from: LordRobin

@Observer

"Tasteless. Sophomoric."

Well, duh. It's 4chan. The members there would probably take that as a compliment.

If you've never visited 4chan.org, you really need to. (Just not at work.) It's not like the site is some underground hidden site -- it's open to anyone. You'll understand a lot better if you visit it just once.

Generally when people talk about 4chan, they're referring to the "random", or "/b/" board, which is essentially a 24-hour-a-day drunken party. Other boards on the system are much tamer and rarely cause mischief. ('Course some of the other boards are full of porn, too. Like I said, NSFW.)

------RM

Nice article.
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