NationStates Jolt Archive


Hacked: (Again)!

Spoffin
22-11-2003, 18:47
Sycamore is back up to her old tricks

Posted in Mercia regional messageboard.

Greetings.
This is Sycamore, who most of you will remember. I am due to die tomorrow, and thought that as a final act I would leave you all a message. It shall be left in Mercia, The New Mercia, and ‘Mercia The Next Generation’. Incidentally, the use of a colon would not have gone amiss in the last region name.

Firstly, congratulations to Playa Chk on her continued stupidity - it is heartening to know that she has not learnt from the incident in which the late C&W and I hacked into her other accounts. Thank you to her, too, for using the same password as before; it has made leaving this message much easier than I could have hoped.

So, to business. What is it that I have deemed important enough to log back on to Nationstates for, after an absence of almost two months? Well, my friends, the answer is simply this; betrayal. I visited Nationstates a few days ago, to check if I had ceased to exist, and was both shocked and horrified to see that a move to 'Mercia The Next Generation' was in progress, organised by none other that Playa Chk herself! I have many qualms with this, and would appreciate you doing me the honour of reading them and taking on board what I have to say.

After all I have done for Mercia, you, fellow Mercians, people I deemed worthy of the name, have decided to move, undoing the work I have done and destroying your region. When I became delegate, we were a region of but 17, and through the perseverance of myself and other loyal nations, we grew until we had reached the 70 nation mark. We were a nation of impressive proportions, feared and loved by many. And now I find you to be undoing this, and creating a new, highly inferior region!

You will all know that there is no love lost between myself and Playa Chk. Incidentally, I am mildly interested to discover that she has not improved in intellect or articulacy since my departure. She has created a region which, as well as having an extremely unoriginal name, will be the downfall of you all. It is no secret that I never approved of an alliance between Mercia and The New Mercia; after all, the latter was only created after a bitter feud between myself and my friends, and this illiterate fool. I took part in the alliance simply to save face; it was necessary for the survival of the region.

I hope that you are suitably ashamed of yourselves. Evility, which was founded by my dear friend, the late Craziness and Weirdnes, has prospered and shone. They are now 133 nations strong, and C&W is naturally proud of them all. I wish I could say the same for my own region, which will soon cease to exist. I shall never visit Nationstates again; it was a part of my life once, a part which was important to me and of which I was proud. Now, to find that we have merged, destroying the original Mercia, I can only record that I am bitterly disappointed in all who have ever seen fit to call themselves Mercians.

Sycamore, ex-UN delegate of Mercia.

Motto of Feisty Biatch is changed to "HACKED: (Again)".

National animal etc: Fiesty biatch's national animal is the Tree Snake, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Sycamore


Someone is off her meds. Please, mods, look into this.
Peng-Pau
22-11-2003, 19:49
Isn't politics fun...
Spoffin The Activist
22-11-2003, 20:01
:? erm, yeah.
SalusaSecondus
22-11-2003, 20:07
As all evidence points to this being a stolen password, there is little that I can do beyond encouraging everyone to use secure passwords. The GMs will look into this.

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SalusaSecondus
Tech Modling
Spoffin
22-11-2003, 20:17
As all evidence points to this being a stolen password, there is little that I can do beyond encouraging everyone to use secure passwords. The GMs will look into this.

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SalusaSecondus
Tech Modling
Yeah, stolen password, but the FAQ says that stealing someones account is against the rules. Has this changed?

<edit:> sorry, I realise you meant thats all you could do, not all that any of the mods could do
Playa Chk Is back
23-11-2003, 03:46
Sycamore That nation Is the one i was gonna let die.
Note: i never used that nation.
Also if i was so dumb how come all my other passwords are changed.
ANd You have no legacy! Me and my friends created mercia it is are region not yours!
Peng-Pau
23-11-2003, 04:34
Sycamore That nation Is the one i was gonna let die.
Note: i never used that nation.
Also if i was so dumb how come all my other passwords are changed.
ANd You have no legacy! Me and my friends created mercia it is are region not yours!

Geez, get a spelling and grammar checker...
23-11-2003, 07:15
The full excerpt from the FAQ runs as follows:

It is against the rules to hijack someone else's nation, and if we see someone do it, we'll ban them. If we don't see it happen, though, and someone changes your password and e-mail address, I'm afraid you're on your own. As far as the game is concerned, your government has been overthrown in a coup.
As Salusa said, we'll look into it, but the FAQ makes it plain that you could well be "on your own". The obvious lessons to take from this would be not to give out your password and not to make it an easily-guessed password as well. The FAQ also recommends turning "auto-login" off.