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.
We do indeed get huge numbers of bots that come around âpokingâ at the server, just like any other website. Most of them donât even know or care that this is a web forum, instead they try to directly access the underlying server operating system via unpatched low-level vulnerabilities or incorrect server configurations. Most of those attempts get quickly shut down by a sort of automatic circuit breaker, and to my knowledge none have ever been successful. Then there are other types of bots that directly target and try to take control of the actual forum software (many are dumb and actually attempt all sorts of common methods to breach Wordpress, which we donât even run here) using illegitimate access methods or unpatched vulnerabilities. Again, to my knowledge weâve never had a successful breach or private data leak at that level either. Then there are the bots like the ones responsible for this recent attack that perform the same steps that a legitimate human user would take to use the forum software. From what I can tell there is usually a human that performs certain manual tasks first and then sets the bots loose to repetitively blast out a fire hose of whatever kind of smut theyâre promoting. Or sometimes they simply access thousands upon thousands of pages like any real user could do. Once in a while they hit our server so hard that it slows to a crawl, and I have to manually intervene and block their IP address(es).
Now that you mention this is a good time to give a huge shout of thanks to all the legitimate BLF users that help control spam in the public forums. I couldnât do it without your collective help. I occasionally get reports of a spam post, but itâs almost always eliminated and the account shut down via the Spam button before I can even get to it. Many thanks to all of you for your vigilance!
have you heard of the supercookies hidden in browsers. just waiting for execution. no one knows why theyâre there, or when theyâll take over. first reefer madness, now this. when will it all end
I have not heard of either, but I just found out that if I need tile installed in El Paso, there is someone on this forum that does such a thing. https://budgetlightforum.com/t/-/9150/312 Thatâs good to know. I should bookmark that, just in case I ever have a tile installation need in El Paso.
By the way, please don't report my spammy link. It is not spam, even though it smells/reeks like spam. Can I add a spammy signature link? I guess it's entiley up to me.