#the server rack the thing is hosted on with a legal notice

[fratboycipher]

Air Canada essentially argued that "the chatbot is a separate legal entity that is responsible for its own actions,"

the implications of this argument are staggering and also hilarious

This just in: Air Canada is absolutely fucking terrible, surprising no one.

[prorevenge]

Mess with my Copyright and slander my name? I'll kill your server network.

I guess a little bit of backstory is due before I continue. This is all over a game I used to play, a lot. I was easily one of the best PvPers on the server, if not most of my country. If I came knocking (and you always knew, because I made a show out of it), you went running. This started with a raid that the server owner had deemed to be exploitative, and against server rules. The community voted it wasn't, but admins voted 2-1 with 1 "abstaining" from the vote in favour of a 5 day ban. The server owner had quickly taken my Unlisted video, downloaded it as his own, then re-uploaded it to his own YT channel, violating Copyright laws. YT took the video down, and the game devs stepped in once they received notice that they had violated copyright laws. The last thing any server network wants to do is completely rebrand their server. It's very costly, and usually kills a lot of their active population.

I'm a 3rd Year CS student with a strong passion for Pentesting, and the server owner has about 20 years experience in Information Security and Programming experience. (This is very important later on.)

I created a program that checked their now extinct website for various activity, pulling information returned to me (Error Codes: 403 Forbidden, 404 Not Found specifically). In the event of that 403 Forbidden is returned (which implies an IP ban was issued), a VPN is activated to shift my IP, and if another error is returned, it alerts me. During all of this, I was archiving their website on a weekly basis, or if any significant changes were made (through two different methods). A live copy of the website, and a local copy of the website. This was done using KALI Linux to create a local copy, and the Way Back Machine (archive.org/web/) was also archiving everything. I got that alert yesterday that something serious had happened to their website. I investigated, and found that their domain had been deleted. After some more investigating, I pulled all of their information pertaining to their users accounts (it was a forums, hosted by a major company that specializes in gaming forums). Using that information, I was able to get the new community name. I pulled up the new website, and discovered they still had their old IP's listed and an old screenshot of their former community name, and took a video of that. As time continued on, I noticed information on their website was changing. IP's had been changed now, the screenshot had changed. The owner's name had changed (but not his profile link!). Most of his administrative team were now on the website again, and more importantly, they'd transferred basically all of their previous posts. So all of the former post counts/votes had been transferred.

I was aware of major legal proceedings against the network (which I wasn't involved in), and knew immediately why they were doing this. I compiled all of my information, made a 10 minute video explaining, in detail how I knew what I knew and then sent it to the legal department of the games they're hosting (same company, different games, imagine Madden '17 and Madden '18. Both owned by EA).

Today, I received an email back from them, confirming that they'd received my email, and were already taking action into removing their anti-cheat protection from the servers, as well as filing for legal action for violating his EULA agreement. Today, I checked back on the website... I was initially 403'd from the website (which, considering the massive digital footprint I left behind for him, isn't surprising). However, I flicked my VPN on, and was met by a very nice forum message, calling me out publicly as the motherf*cker who ruined the first server (I wasn't) and the motherf*cker who ruined the rebrand.

This has easily cost him a couple thousand rebuying a domain, then buying advertising, both for the website, and his game server. Hundreds of hours doing all that advertising, coding, and even more time transferring server files to a new rack. All undone in about an hour of work.

PS: If you read this, don't bother trying again, because I've pulled even more information, that you have zero control over.

TLDR: A Server Owner stole a video about a year back. He paid the price back then, and is still paying it today. His attempt to re-brand his server entirely was foiled, and now he's in deeper legal shit then he started in.

(source) (story by CFS2018)

[besabogdanicb]

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