Slowly..... she started taking items off ,....one by one .... First her headlamp ....
You just have to know how to handle these women . She kept talking about my package and wanted me to repeat my Visa card number .I told her sheâd have to talk to my financial advisor at the First national bank of Nigeria .No ones getting any more money till the folks at the lottery send the check. I think theyâre having problems finding an envelope big enough to send it. Itâs a really big check .
She didnât say what she needed money for but I think sheâs too embarrassed to admit itâs to buy clothes . None of these poor women have any and I feel for them.
I tried to explain mode spacing , inverse square law and PWM ... Iâm still waiting for another p.m.
Kinda nice to see more girls interested in the hobby .
Nah, you started the wrong way. Instead you should have given her a little token (e.g. a fancy keychain light?) to show your deep appreciation and admiration for revealing her ... uhm ... nice flesh... sorry flashlight parts to you. Something like this...
âHey Beatrice, this must have slipped right off your neck.â
If the PM was sent to me, shouldnât I have been the one to decide whether it was âspamâ for me?
âWholesale cleansingâ sounds rather religious, does it not? I mean, one manâs ceiling is another manâs floor, right? One manâs trash is another manâs treasure, right? Last time I checked, PMâs were just thatâŚprivate, as in, non-public.
Just wondering, as this seems almost CPFish in deciding whatâs best for âme.â
@Hoosh: This was a large scale spam attack from one source that used bots to masquerade as normal human users in order to create over 20 BLF user accounts and send thousands of PMs. If you consider a message sent by a computer inviting you to view porn as a valuable personal communication, then you really need to read up on the basics of how spam and other nefarious activities are creating such a plague on the internet. Itâs a wild and sinister world out there online, and your position sounds dangerously naĂŻve. Furthermore, spam and other criminal activities are prohibited by the BLF Rules that you accepted to join this forum, and my job is to enforce them.
Exactly. And better hope you own a direct upstream trunk to the internet, because every ISP or web host that I know of will block your SMTP ports and/or deny you service in the blink of an eye if they get so much as a hint that youâre participating in that sort of traffic. And thatâs another very powerful reason that absolutely obliged me to react as I did and have always done; otherwise BLF would have ceased to exist many years ago and no decent hosting service would want to have anything to do with us if I permitted that sort of garbage to go unchecked. And no other self-respecting admin that is not a criminal would have done anything different.
The settings were definitely far too permissive, simply because weâve never had a problem like this up until now. But it wasnât âa userâ, it was a bot or possibly even a botnet rapidly abusing legitimate access mechanisms. And unless there are sensible limits in place anything that a normal human can do with a computer can be accomplished and repeated millions of times faster with a computer script.
Got it. Well, youâve done a hell of a job thus far at keeping this place NOT full of power-hungry mods or scam/spam, so thatâs great. The rare breach is ok as long as itâs a while until the next one, and certainly, weâve done better here than any other forum I know.
Thanks for the support! I just need to clarify that âbreachâ isnât the correct term in this case, because that implies that they used illegitimate access methods or vulnerabilities to access and/or exfiltrate private information. That wasnât what happened in this case, instead they used the default settings to send information to most of the BLF user list, which is already public information. And they only added unwanted information instead of seeing something that they normally wouldnât be able to see.