hacking prohibited on VB?

[John Alder]

hacking isnt allowed to be used or discussed is it? the admin over at http://www.tutorialforums.com/ decided to post all of my IP addresses and my site domain and told users to "play" or something like. What can be done about this? yes I was being a fool there, an honest fool but hey, this shouldnt lead to hacking. Hacking is illegal.

The direct post was http://www.tutorialforums.com/showthread.php?threadid=17008

and I doubt they are using a liscensed VB aswell.

[Scrubby]

LOL. Was a member there about a year ago. :p.

[ccd1]

Hacking and cracking are two different things. Many hackers get pissed when they connotote hacker with cracker.

In any case, no, it is not illegal to discuss it, First Amendment right. If you are located outside of the US, you follow those laws (Which we have few of here in Japan and none of in Mexico).

[tubedogg]

Um...I hate to burst your bubble John but IP addresses are public information. Doing a simple tracert or pinging your server will reveal the IP address...

[Scrubby]

I think he meant they were posting his IP, not his server. :p

[tubedogg]

Even so that's relatively easy to find out.

[ccd1]

They're all going to start pinging you to death now :|

[John Round]

liscensed - How many more times will people mispell that word :P

No, It is legal otherwise it wouldn't be listed at the vBulletin forum directory ;)

[Floris]

I think it is not a matter of something like this being legal or illegal.

A forum 'crew' shouldn't just post an host address of their members and for the simple reason to provoke others to abuse it. This kind of behaviour shouldn't be tolerated. They really have posted your host addresses publicly and even your web site. And gave the impression for others to play with it. If you suspect them from running a warez version of vBulletin, report them to piracy@vbulletin.com

I advice you to just E-mail the Administrator of the forum, request your account to be removed immediatly, along with your details from the database. And then to change your host address and just don't visit that forum no more. Each visit lets them log your new IP.

Install a firewall, there are freeware versions out there too. Log for a while and see what kind of attacks you might get. Report the attacks to the ISP's from the hosts logged. They will take appropiate action(s) if needed.

More you can't do.

[Scott MacVicar]

use

http://www.vbulletin.com/contact/piracy.php

instead of emailing it to piracy@vbulletin.com

[Floris]

Mah bad :)

[Scrubby]

The owner of the site was the one who posted that info, so I don't think he would do anything about removing them. :eek:. Maybe contact their host?

[John Alder]

and how can I do that?

[ccd1]

Via email, but I wouldn't waste their time since they're doing nothing illegal.

[DirectPixel]

...and it's pretty sure (99.998%) that they're running a legal copy of vBulletin, since they're a big community, and you'll think the phone home would've called at least once.:rolleyes: