Why does anyone actually care what the hell is going on here? He's probably found some dog old exploit to this dog old version of vBulletin and everyone is feeding his ego.
Well, I'm sure if he posted up here saying that he could hack the forum and that it had huge loop holes in it's security that the usual lot would come along saying nah nah this forum is bomb proof and start flaming him.
Now he's atleast being flamed after he's prooved his point.
Well Phlos is a self proclaimed number 1 who is so far up his own arse that he had to install a window in his stomach just to see where he is going.
You wonder why the Devs don't listen to you? Its because they have a life, LFS is probably not even in their top 10 list of priorities. Oh and not to mention the fact you keep doing idiotic stuff like this.
Ultimately, the devs can just turn off the website and literally clear out the whole forum. Still a pain in the ass. Since Phlos has hacked the forum, I am not going to flame him so I dont get banned.
Does anyone remember LFS Manager..? That was a really popular program, I seem to remember, Phlos made that for the community.
Back in S1 times, Phlos helped expose a security whole in the hotlap system, and although a lot of people may think he was trying to cheat, I believe he was trying to help.
He has, apparently, offered to help with security problems on multiple occasions but is ignored. I don't think he is the only one to blame here.
What have the rest of you ever done for the community I ask?
Edit: I am sure that Phlos won't ban any of you or manipulate the forum in any lasting way, he clearly doesn't intend to cause any real damage.
I think you will find theres plenty of people who have created useful programs for LFS, and most of those didn't hack into the forum and delete accounts.
Also I don't know many people who would put their work in the top 10 of important things in their life. I can reel off a list of at least 10 things that are more important.
you tried to hack masterservers,
you were trying to give trojan software to betatesters to find out about s2 code/protocol
you hacked lfs
you coded exploits (handbrake)
you are the most un-honourable racer I ever met. Every wrecker has more behaviour.
you are selfish, arrogant and totally self-focused retarded idiot.
you are alone, and i'm sooo sorry for that.
So now you think, you helped LFS, by behaving like a cheap thief (again)? It's ridiculous, and I think it's about time we use the info we have on you with some buddies with baseball-bats in france, watch ur back, slowpoke.
Phlos, first off I hope you realise how bad you've made yourself look. You might not care, but you seem like the person who does.
Secondly, don't you care that legal action might be taken against you?
Only a few people pointed out what I feel about this situation. Yes, it's not exactly a nice way to do it, but in all seriousness, what good are we doing by feeding him messages of hatred?
Discussing this is quite pointless imo.
Chris is thinking of studying psychology! :something
Well, if he really meant damage obviously he would have done some
It's just a forum, and nothing really awful has happened - but I would bet that some things will be fixed... So the forum will be a better place (even if nobody ever bothered with these "issues" before). Kind of ironic, but really not too serious of an event.
Well you maybe, what about all of the other people constantly attacking him?
The attacks haven't only started now, so people can't try and say that this is the straw that broke the camel's back, he was unfairly targeted a long time ago imo.
Yeah, but the devs still need to take legal action. What he did is a felony in the US and some other countries! Meaning phlos commited a criminal crime. I dunno about everywhere else, but in the US Phlos could actually be jailed.
Did he report this practicular exploit to the devs? How long ago was that and what was the dev's response?
Promoting yourself to administrator might seem like a minor thing, but the fact that a system has been compromised can mean a lot of work for the devs. Especially since LFS is a commercial product and the person compromising a part of the system could have use that system to compromise another. As an example, he could have modified the LFS purchase page to steal credit card numbers while pretending he just exploited the forum to show the exploit was there (He might even say that just so the real admins wouldn't look anywhere else so the credit card theft would remain hidden). That can mean alot of work when everything needs to be went through and inspected for changes. That's lost time, and with a commercial product lost time = lost money.