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2017-05-02 at 8:52 AM UTC in I hit the nerve!I'm actually pretty chill the last couple days
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2017-05-02 at 7:50 AM UTC in Attn everyone: Stop dumping every thread in SG
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2017-05-02 at 7:27 AM UTC in Attn everyone: Stop dumping every thread in SG
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2017-05-02 at 7:24 AM UTC in Attn everyone: Stop dumping every thread in SGdident read this thred bcyus its not in sg
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2017-05-02 at 7:16 AM UTC in Attn everyone: Stop dumping every thread in SG
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2017-04-30 at 9:35 AM UTC in Clones got you down? Fear no more (maybe)Ohh, shit. I just read your OP, Lanny. Carry on. This doesn't affect me. I can still work my way around it.
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2017-04-30 at 9:32 AM UTC in Clones got you down? Fear no more (maybe)
Originally posted by RisiR I actually just wanted to fuck with the users. Heh.
You have no idea how fucking great that would have been. I realized Lanny was fucking around with the software when I couldn't lock out from "your" account yesterday.
Take it easy, RiseR. Lanny WILL perma-ban you for fucking with the site. -
2017-04-30 at 9:30 AM UTC in Clones got you down? Fear no more (maybe)
Originally posted by -SpectraL As an alternate approach, you could guinea pig the idea of not pissing off the board's users, and then maybe they wouldn't fuck with you and your BBS. Just a suggestion - one that is sure to fall on empty ears, but hey, I can always say I tried, right?
I actually just wanted to fuck with the users. Heh.
You have no idea how fucking great that would have been. I realized Lanny was fucking around with the software when I couldn't lock out from "your" account yesterday. -
2017-04-30 at 9:26 AM UTC in Clones got you down? Fear no more (maybe)Seriously. Fuck you.
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2017-04-30 at 9:24 AM UTC in Clones got you down? Fear no more (maybe)You absolute fucking cunt, Lanny. You ruined a couple hours of my work you fucking piece of trash.
I made a mistake, true. You ruined the most epic troll in recent history. Maybe ever depending how far I would have gotten.
Don't worry, though. I was just trying to have a little fun. Now I'm mad. You will get yours. -
2017-04-30 at 12:17 AM UTC in Clones got you down? Fear no more (maybe)So some jerks have started register accounts with usernames that are visually very similar or identical to existing users. This is known as a "homoglyph attack", it's kind of interesting but it's actually troublingly difficult to address without impacting full unicode support. To try and limit the impact of this kind of username spoofing I've implemented "trip phrases", an idea floated by Bret Victor a couple of years ago. The context is a little different, Victor was thinking in context of chan style tripcodes, password base "authentication" by obfuscation of the password. In this case your trip phrase is generated from your username and is sensitive to homoglyphs, so you can't brute force someone else's trip phrase.
So what does this actually mean for you? If you go to your profile page and enable tripcodes a 5 word phrase will be displayed most places your username appears. Impostors won't be able to use the same trip phrase, so people can distinguish you from a potential impostor by noting the absence or difference in trip phrase. Unlike user titles it's not tied to post counts so spamming like §m£ÂgØL-impostor did won't be possible.
Will the phrases be visually distinctive enough for this scheme to work? Hey, who knows, but I encourage you to guinea pig it for me so we can find out.
Post last edited by Lanny at 2017-04-30T05:39:28.301600+00:00