2019-10-30 at 1:04 AM UTC
STER0S
Space Nigga
[the disappointingly unanticipated slab]
yo sophie
what mathematic subject is your favorite and why?
2019-10-30 at 1:17 AM UTC
Originally posted by STER0S
yo sophie
what mathematic subject is your favorite and why?
I bet it's something to do with extreme deviations.
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2019-10-30 at 3:17 AM UTC
Originally posted by STER0S
yo sophie
what mathematic subject is your favorite and why?
I hate math, sorry, and the nomenclature for different fields and subjects within mathematics is way different in my native language. That said i like Game Theory.
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2020-01-07 at 4:41 PM UTC
Apparently that isn't the real ande anyway. That's an imposter fed.
I'll try to clarify some of the things you mentioned in OP.
To preface, I spent years and years on ez before I even thought about becoming a mod. When I became admin, a big reason for it was the site's lack of income/ and value. N (based on some info I looked at recently I see why you only call him this...) gave up on making money with it. The website had lost value for him because he came up with original brilliant scams which earned him a lot more than ever running the site. Instead, we focused on board culture and prided ourselves on being one of the hacking/warez/gore/weapons/evil forums that had thousands of daily users.
For the next several years before his arrest, N and I had some business together. I would contact him and tell him how ez was going and always defer big decisions to him. I don't remember him being around when viraL came into the picture: He stopped talking to me after scamming me for 1500USD, which I would have totally forgiven him for.
Singletrack was hacked by a proud new Evilzone user and cost the owners of the magazine 20.000GBP in damages. This was nothing new to me and I didn't see the significance of the event at first, but the board went through a radical cultural change at this point and ideologically split evilzone's staff in half. In the Staff Only forum, we would have lengthy discussions about our direction and what we were all about. I've personally grown a lot but my childish argument to my peers at the time still stands: it's not called benicetopeopleZone and we're not trying to make people happy. 'Evil isn't just a meaningless theme on EZ' was my attitude, probably. In a lot of ways I still hold the ideology that data is just data and the only moral obligation one has is to themselves; We're not obligated to provide a moral safe space for people on a fucking website called Evil zone or anywhere on the internet for that matter.
Still, this newfound empathy among staff had splintered us and then things just started getting harder from that point on (e.g. viraL).
viraL (read about him on ED if you don't know him) was a pain in our ass and in 2009??(or earlier?) I wasn't skilled enough to protect us from DDoS attacks properly. He took us down for a month. During this time, stathis and I did something incredible and spun up new Plesk servers *every single time* the website went offline. And sure enough the website would be DDoS'd a day or two later. Usually my process for fixing issues like that would work and the DDoSer would give up fairly quickly, however because of the noise we made during that time (SingleTrackWorld) he was pretty incessant with his attacks.
If you didn't know the following you may respect me less: I wanted EZ online desperately. I asked the old owner of a rival hacking forum we had hacked (yes, that little piggy boy who got arrested for Adobe warez) to host us for free, which he did because he thought I was a girl. Even his hosts couldn't stop viraL's DDoSing. At this point viraL gave me personally an ultimatum: let him host us or he'll do this forever.
The decision took me a day but the staff accepted it and we were online for another week. During this time, ez was hosted on the same server ed was. There were some cool files on that server. But the best part of this story is that after that week of hosting us, viraL saw that EZ doesn't make money, so he dropped us and we were back on a plesk server. You can tell that I was never in it for the money.
Both of these decisions I feel bad about -- compromising our basic securities in order to stay online is not a good option, and if I had known what I know now we might STILL be online today properly.
After this whole debacle, EZ continued on at less capacity and I loosened my grip on the community's culture. Joepie91's version of Evilzone is one in which staff stayed conscious and felt responsibility for the actions of ez users and their posts. That's how it was for some time - moderation became heavier and staff discouraged public defamation / data seizure/erasure with link backs Evilzone. "It's hurting people."
N and Ande had been working on a blackhat operation for some time (N thought of it, Ande would do the work, N involved me as the public face) and around the same time I started caring less about EZ because of the culture shift, the site was plucked from under our noses by N and Ande. I confirmed this happened when I noticed the DNS servers changed and Ande told me I wasn't in charge anymore. I could be remembering this part wrong but I also remember Ande successfully hacking evilzone to gain admin access. Also I don't remember leaving kicking and screaming, I hope not. After that I bid ez adieu, peeked my head in '15 (or something), nobody remembered me and I felt like I didn't know what the forum was anymore, so I moved on.
Yes, from what I hear his admin/mod style was utter shit compared to N's time. Anyway, from my view, I have great memories of ez. I loved the community before the existential moral crisis of jp91 and others, and I loved every post that helped me become what I am today. (Especially N's posts)
I'll finish this later (and try to remember dates better). Good times.
edit during pandemic: i think ryan has been out of jail for a while, hope n is in good health and rich from bitcoin.
ps fun trivia facts:
- stathis and N were IRL friends
- jmscobra was my on-call global mod, and I'd phone him on a big ass nokia phone If I couldn't do something with the forum that I needed done.
- betabet agency listeners go crazy when you spell out N's full username (and i accidentally already)
- ez moved around way too much to be raided. the only person who ever took the heat for anything EZ did was N and 1 other poster
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2022-09-06 at 3:17 PM UTC
Yo cybernetix. Totally missed this when you first posted it. Just in case you're reading this, i do appreciate the extra info that your side of the story provides. I wanted to thank you for that, even though my expression of gratitude was late in forthcoming..
2022-09-06 at 5:38 PM UTC
I agree, that was a very interesting read. It's nice to see how OP brought to two people of the community here and give their input.
2023-05-01 at 12:43 PM UTC
I googled evilzone and this came up in the first page, wonder if it was a marketing attempt.
2023-05-02 at 2:37 AM UTC
Speedy Parker
Black Hole
[my absentmindedly lachrymatory gazania]
Originally posted by D-Bonglord
THE BLACK WINDOW
Originally posted by D-Bonglord
STRIKES AGAIN
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2023-05-02 at 5:38 AM UTC
If the fox mentioned there the same as the fox here? And are they talking about Haxor?
2023-05-02 at 5:56 AM UTC
aldra
JIDF Controlled Opposition
hah I remember hacker's heaven, pretty sure I downloaded a bunch of tools from there way back
2023-05-02 at 8:09 AM UTC
aldra
JIDF Controlled Opposition
Originally posted by Meikai
that's where sophie went im sure
paedo purgatory
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