Hacked

If you tried to visit this site most of today, you probably found it inaccessible. Well, some ahole decided to hack my box. As soon as I realized what was going on I collected backups, recorded some forensic information, and wiped the system clean and started over. I had sneaking suspicions something was amiss the last week or so because of strange things that have been happening on my system (which I chalked up to XP and some shell extensions I installed recently). I suspected wrong. This is the price I pay for opening inbound ports on an XP machine and not being more security conscious.

To the guy if you're reading this: F*CK YOU. Oh, and you're either incredibly brazen or incredibly retarded. I have a webcam staring directly into my face when I'm at the console. You remotely take over the mouse and run a program while I'm sitting at it? The network and two firewalls are now hardened. Thanks for the heads up, douchebag. Your upstream ISP will be getting emails and logs about this event, and that little program you ran has been copied and will be analyzed in short order.

Real men of genius!

So some people I know decided to pack two hundred sparklers into a copper pipe and call it a firework. I'd like to think anyone with half a brain would call it a PIPE BOMB. In any case, I think the following text would make a great "Real Men of Genius" Bud Light commercial:

<Background Singer>

Bud Light Presents: Real Men of Genius

Real men of genius

Today we salute you, Mr. Improvised Munitions Creator.

Mr. Improvised Munitions Creator

You take Independance Day so seriously that you create explosives from harmless sparklers.

Hope I don't lose a finger!

Sparklers? Snakes? Poppers? These devices are for nancy boys. Anything less than a quarter stick of dynamite just doesn't impress you.

I'm a real man with nine fingers!

So crack open an ice-cold Bud Light, master of munitions, because nobody is going to tell you 200 sparklers in a pipe makes a pipe bomb.

Mr. Improvised Munitions Creator!

Proof of their stupidity: Video 1 Video 2