June 21, 2007
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Xanga
Xanga is back by popular demand!
I read this on john’s site:
We suffered a Denial of Service attack yesterday <IMAGE HERE>. After working around the clock, we were able to take countermeasures and are bringing the site back up now.
We’re so sorry about the downtime! We’ve tried so hard over the years to keep our site up as much as possible, and it’s been years since someone actually took us down.
Thanks for your patience, and I’m sorry about all this. I’ll be posting more about our security enhancements soon.
Best,
John
CEO, XangaDear Denial of Service Attacker person,
You suck. Wait until a few million users find out your address.
Your friend,
Dan
What should we do to the denial of service attacker person when we find him/her?
Comments (149)
crach his comp of course. isn’t that what all hackers fear?
I’m not sure. But I mean really, how many xanga users are there? It’s going to be pretty rough for them!
I’m not a violent person – but I am thinking violent thoughts right now!
I think we should send him the virus that I had on my home computer recently! It was ridiculous what I had to go through to get rid of it! That would keep him busy for a while!
Take his computer, burn down his house, and tell his mom on him.
I dunno. My life doesn’t revolve around xanga like yours does. I have a job, friends and family to attend to.
Take away his Star Wars toys.
stupid person. Deny him computer access for rest of his life
Give him paper cuts all over his body, then spray him with lemon juice.
Have him arrested for sure!!!
I am finally able to get on, Dan! I couldn’t for a long while after all of you who I was talking to at myspace could, even. It took mine longer to get back up.
I do know one thing, this person has caused havoc around the Xanga community. Crazy people!
Tell his mommy and take away his Nintendo.
Find him and prosecute him to the fullest. Make this person an example to the other hackers out there that this kind of mischief will not be tolerated.
Give him a job with the government.
-David
RYC: Thank you!
I think publishing his name and address might just be enough. Perhaps also where he works. Where he banks? I’m sure other techhies might be able to find a way to get him a Denial of His Money…
flood his inbox with pictures of david hasselhoff naked.
I liked the paper cut and lemon juice idea!!
I’m glad that xanga is back up though!
*HUGS*
Make him / her read my site.
Tie him to a chair and slingshot an octopus at his face.
on another note, i watched your video on myspace! i was excited to see what you look like, but you couldnt possibly look more different than how i pictured you. you look like a much more family-friendly funny guy. i always figured you were short, bald, and chubby. and i figured you wore suits all the time too, for some reason.
Put him on a years computer restriction and freezing all his assets for that one year.
Kill him. No doubt in my mind.
We should say “Thank you for getting so many Xanga addicts off the computer so they spent more time with their families.”
Oh, for crying out loud. Yes, it was bad, but we’re back up (mostly, I got thrown out again this morning — but I blame that on my own site).
Though, as usual, Soultender has an excellent idea in taking away his Star Wars toys. That made me smile.
-Guru on the Hill
Deny ITS service, of course.
i don’t know… but i never knew how dependent i was on xanga till yesterday =( i went crazy at work checking back every hour!
Beat him with a tube sock full of wood screws (to quote the new Alltel commercial. I think that’s hilarious). I’m truly addicted, I was starting to panic.
Force him to spend eternity posting fuggly pics of himself on myspace.
Shoot him/her in the face with a semi automatic weapon!
i’ll write him a javascript virus that does mean stuff like corrupt bios chips… then we can mark his ip address…
Give them hours and hours of community service. Obviously this person has way too much time on their hands that could be used in a more positive approach, like picking up litter by hand or changing the bedpans of the elderly.
if its a her: drop her in a pool of crisco
if its a him: kick him in the face.
I am gonna go bite my pillow that’s what I’m gonna do…
Throw the book at them…show no mercy.
oh the possibilities
Hack into his computer, and find out his address. Then go to his house, destroy everything, and beat him up.
Flay him alive.
I am awarding this entry with a single eProp since I had assholes that try shit like DOS on good, legit sites.
Lock him in a soundproof room for 24 hours and pipe in Sanjaya recordings.
Ban him for life from using a computer!
I think that we should make him publicly wear a sign that says something like this: “I am a hacker; and I cause websites to go down” and parade him in every city in the world….xanga is world wide…or we could send him to a middle east country for a while…Smile
We boil them in oil, flay them, and then draw and quarter them (if female, we’ll go with burning at the stake).
I am glad that Xanga is up and running,I love Xanga.
I say we all spam the the denial of service attacker person .
RYC: Hah, hah. You’re hilarious. You’re the one who dedicated a whole post to it.
Aw, man, someone already used flaying.
Anyway, I didn’t mean for mine to sound so incredibly disgusting and malicious. I was kidding. Duh.
Ha ha, I like your message personally. Short, and to the point. Thanks for making me smile.
Deny him the ability to ever be FIRST.
*shglaf*…. IT WAS NOT ME!!! but i did enjoy getting a ton of emails while xanga was MIA. They all seem to blame a certain Donkey.
hang him/her!
smash his/her computer(s).
SET A JIHAD ON HIM!!!!
Shoot him in the knee’s with a shotgun.
poor xanga
Xanga is so precious to us…. harhar
I am sure it was a myspace fanatic….I am betting you will find the culprit lurking there somewhere….they attract that kind of clientele..along with all the tweens & teeny boppers….
I wondered what was going on….
Stab him, cut off his fingers, and then right “Denial of Life!” on the wall with his own blood. OWNED!
Write^…. too early to type correctly.
When was the last time someone was tarred and feathered?
I’m likeing the whole tarring and feathering option myself, emphasis on the very hot and sticky tar.
Yeah I totally thought it was me. I went to log on a few times yesterday and the internet here at work was being somewhat loopy, so I just assumed it was a work thing. Got home last night and I couldn’t get on there either. Got up this morning and had an interesting tale about nearly catching myself on fire (nearly), but Xanga still stubbornly refused to come up. Thankfully it seems to be working now, which is good considering I just paid for a lifetime membership….
Make him do the same thing on facebook, google, yahoo, aol, msn, and every other time consuming website. I’d be more productive if those websites never existed.
I don’t know, burn all his photos cause it seems people have personal photos uploaded to xanga. As well as get rid of his personal memorabilia and anything with sentimental value. It’d be sad if Xanga stopped working after so many years.
There have been some good ideas thrown out there. Paper cuts and lemon juice sounds good, freezing of the assets sounds good and telling his mom is a must. I also liked the freezing of his assets idea.
We have to let him live but we must make him suffer. Thus most of these ideas are very good but I would like to add having him caned by DMV.
That’s funny, yeah, I want to find that person the “Denial of Service” Attacker…. I am not even sure what that means, but I don’t like it.
Thanks Dan, for the laugh.
Hugs, Tricia
Wikipedia is so cool.
I can’t think of anything witty to say about the hacker. But what he/she/they did was pretty cool. I mean, how many people can say they can do that?
It was annoying. But these are all kind of drastic measures, dont ya think?
That was brutal – I don’t like going cold turkey involuntary. I was really close to panicking without having access to xanga at work.
Deny his service
I wasn’t mad, since I’m trying to extract myself from the Xanga addiction. Good thing I chose to come back a bit today rather than yesterday…
I know! I wanted to go on xanga so much last night but
that error message kept on showing up. Dang hacker
the question in my mind is are we punishing the action or the intention? the action doesnt seem to warrant a very severe punishment. shutting down a blog-site. it isnt a necessity to anyones life, no one will die or be seriously harmed without it. but the intention, on the other hand. the intention seems to be a malicious one towards a large group of people. on that note, the punishment should be rather severe and public, so as to send a message, “if you are doing something just to get at as many people you can with mallicious intent, you dont want to do it.”
use chinese torture techniques on him
Place him over young bamboo saplings until the shoots grow unevenly through his body
place him in a cell tied to the ground and have one drop of water constantly fall on his forehead
I’m sure the little guy is reading all these comments right now and getting a big laugh. Hope you’re having a good summer Junior! School starts back up soon!
piss in his mothers anus.
I started panicking when it said the site was temporarily shut down yesterday. I thought to myself, “what am I going to do for the rest of the day now???”
punch him or her in the face!
put his testicles in a vise.
“Give him paper cuts all over his body, then spray him with lemon juice.”
ahahahahahaaa ! yesss !
where is an R.O.U.S. when you need one? lol
(The Princess Bride -movie)
Daniel (doubledb)
I’m not sure, but I was a little worried. I didn’t have much time to check it during the day yesterday,so last night and early this morning after I had gotten home I kept checking and the site wouldn’t even come up.
release a large, eloquent tirade in his/her general direction. Seriously, with all these Xanga users, we should be able to find enough people with a good grasp of the English language so thisperson could get the general idea of our annoyance.
RYC: So you’re going to support a lesser candidate because they *can* win? That’s why people as awesome as him can’t win…because everyone says that.
They’re too important anymore and they should still be optional.
We are so dependent on a number to tell us who we are for “security” reasons. but when you make a person a simple number instead of a person, isn’t it that much easier to steal their identity?
Anyway, thanks for the comment and welcome back to xanga (now that it’s back online).
I dont even know, but something REALLY BAD- I was freaking out.
heeheeheeheeheee
According to wikipedia: May 20, 2007 – In Hong Kong, a 14-year-old boy is arrested after professing that he was involved in the Sun Yee On triad society gang fighting on his Xanga site.[31]
Hmm…
has anyone visited a website similar to Dan’s, http://www.wis.dm
It is all about asking questions and getting comments.
that site entertained my thoughts while xanga was away. sorry xanga, i couldn’t resist the new site on the block.
i felt so lost without xanga yesterday…..
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lets go throw fish at their faces.
I don’t know but I felt so lost with my xanga!
Never do that to me again!
I’m all for the papercuts and lemon juice idea.
I knew I was addicted to xanga a couple years ago (even a year ago), but I thought it had subsided into just something I used to ramble about my day. But last night, I couldn’t sleep because my mind was too full of the day’s activities (which weren’t even very interesting, mind you) and I had nowhere to put them. Xanga is definitely still a hardcore addiction lol
Ya know, reading all of our comments… we’re quite sad. All thrown off just because a website is down. haha. Oh well… at least we’re all crazy together. I heart you, xanga community
no more computers. no more internet. ever. crack his computer and make him lose every file he had and have a permanent denial of service thing happen to him. he really sucks. period.
Hang him/her by their toes..lol!!
kill his first borne
…who invited the party pooper.
break out the bazooka.
Off with his/her head!! Oh wait I forgot this is the 21st century and we can’t do that anymore. Tie him/her to a chair and force then to watch telletubbies
Flay him alive.
I like the lemon juice idea.
I was going absolutely insane yesterday trying to check my xanga…
RYC: Thanks! I wish I had a “before” picture to show you, because it was pretty ugly before I started, haha.
Love him/her and seek healing and reconciliation.
Throw him behind bars for a couple years.
i went crazy yesterday…..umm, lets tar and feather him/her
Toenails + Pliers … = Happy Fun Times …
we should deny him so things, lock him in a cage a deny him sex, food, water, computer use, see how he/she likes it.
idk but if we do spam comment them!!
I was upset about xanga being down yesterday because I had some really great news to share.
Fine him and move on.
Yea!!!hooray…hehe…Xanga is BACK
Have a good day…Dan…
all of the above
Denying him from Internet access for 4 weeks.
We HAX0R.
I am hopelessly addicted to this site. Whoever said that this site isn’t necessary to anyone’s life obviously doesn’t understand what true xangans are to each other, lol…
string him/her up by his/her ankles with various computer cords, take pictures, and post them on Xanga!!
ironic revenge is the best!
abort him.
or her.
Shut him in a room with this playing. I know that I would want to die:
http://cuppycake.ytmnd.com/
Though, for the record, I didn’t even know until now that Xanga was down yesterday. Didn’t get on the computer.
The first comment is correct: crap his computer! hackers fear lossing the ability of being a total arse and duchebag and ruining everyones online experience.
HAHHAAHHAAHA. oh Dan!!!!
you have no idea.
i woke up early yesterday morning. you know, my usual routine. turn on the computer and whatnot. click on my favorites > xanga.com and then i get “404 not found” i swear, i thought it was going to like..punch a wall.
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anyway – i think that once we find the kid’s house, we’re probably going to start a riot.
you don’t mess with xanga users…honestly.
Just send him World of Warcraft, that’ll keep the nerd occupied.
DDoS him, of course
I had nothing to do at work yesterday so not having xanga available multiplied the hideosity (I think I just made up a word). We should tickle this attacker to death. There’s nothing worse than being tickled and not being able to get away.
Thanks for sharing!
(I still can’t believe I’m *this* addicted to xanga!!)
I’m a fan of the “naked pics of Hasselhoff” idea.
Shank him in the leg with a fork.
I think it’s hilarious. We oughta pick his brain for more useful information.
It was terrible not to have my blog yesterday! I had like three entry ideas, all of which are out the windo now. This person/group should be hanged, drawn and quarters, burnt at the stake, have their entrails cut out and fed to pigs, and then be danced on my Yani.
It was terrible not to have my blog yesterday! I had like three entry ideas, all of which are out the window now. This person/group should be hanged, drawn and quarters, burnt at the stake, have their entrails cut out and fed to pigs, and then be danced on my Yani.
Pat him on the back, examine his methods and possibly give him a job.
after we take his/her computer and do all the normal stuff, we must tape his/her eyelids open, monitor their sleep patterns and if they fall asleep force them awake, until they’ve watched every episode of the Care Bears and every Care Bear movie in order of production. If they fall asleep, we start over. There are enough Xanga users that we would only have to do 5 minute shifts at the most.
I bet it was some jerks from”My space” that did it.
Rip his limb apart, stuff them up his nose, steal his kidney, pin-needle him, sit him in front of his computer as we crash it.
That POOP HEAD!! yes. I called him/her a poop head.
I checked pretty much every ten minutes for three hours. Then I started checking every hour after that. It was INSANE. Wow. I really am addicted to xanga. xD
hehehe….
first, when we find out who it is and where they are, RUIN their social life forever!!!! That way, after inflicting thousands of tortures upon him or her, they will have no one to go to. Oh, and someone should empty his/her bank account =]
As for tortures…I like the idea of giving them thousands of paper cuts all over their body and then bathing them in lemon juice, but that would only be temporary pain…We need something that will last for a little longer….hmm….hang him by his big toes for several hours from the top of a really tall building while making him hold two buckets of water – 50 pounds each. If he drops them, we can do what they did in the old days. Stretch him until he’s like seven feet tall or something.
THEN! When that’s all done, sentence him or her to community service for the rest of their life, picking up litter or something.
muahahahaha…
Start with the toenails.
o__o I think he should be beat to death with a skillet.
And then shot repeatedly with a potato gun.
Spam, spam, spammity spam, (of the disturbing/gross kind) and then
CRASH THE COMPUTER!!
Lastly, sue the attacker for millions, throw him/her in jail for a few years, and cut off his/her fastest typing hand.
Put him in a box so he’ll never do it again!
I say we strap this guy up to a pole really tight. Then everyone lines up, single file. One by one, we each walk up to him and kick him in the nuts. I know it’s not all that harsh, but in the land of Xanga, it’s LAW (I think?)!!!
I say we strap this guy up to a pole really tight. Then everyone lines up, single file. One by one, we each walk up to him and kick him in the nuts. I know it’s not all that harsh, but in the land of Xanga, it’s LAW (I think?)!!!
Let every website he makes be spammed daily for the next eleven years by MySpace users who can’t spell.
Or, attach a mandatory non-removable banner to any of his online creations with pictures of Teletubbies and large letters saying how much he loves them.
you hold him down and i’ll tickle him to death with a giant feather.
Make is so he/she can’t have babies. We can’t have mini Denial of Service Attackers running around. D:
Send a Super Virus to their comp that will completely destroy it.
Soft cushions and the comfy chair?
How does everyone know it was a “him”. Maybe it was me! Honestly, if I were smart enough to do that, I’d put my brains to better use.
Tie him up and deny all services to him until he’s suffering hallucinations and close to death.
LYNCHING TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Abandon this person from Xanga.
Good question…
Send the guy to Mars with a camera. Without a space suit. That way, we can watch his face turn blue and turn into some sort of horrible and disgusting thing due to lack of oxygen. Then we post pictures of him in our Xanga and laugh. Mehehe…
Deny them service…
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