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Polytron Hacked?
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The thing is they are as much "gamers" as we are. There are bad people who are "gamers" and there are good people who are "gamers."
This isn't about "gamers" outside the fact that there is a community within gaming that can be complete assholes, some are even criminals. That doesn't mean that gaming is bad or those who identify as "gamers" are bad. Someone's little brother or sister may say they are a "gamer," and that doesn't mean they are part of a toxic community.
People are people. Assholes and criminals supported and cheered on the criminals who hacked people's business's and jeopardized their livelihoods. That's what this story is. What can we do to stop a hacker from doing this? What can we do to stop hackers at all?
lostsupper
Banned
Nope.
I can easily see why people would want to blame gamers as a whole. This isn't exactly an isolated story. It's just the latest part in the last week with nearly every discussion forum for gaming being overrun by really nasty shit. Might just be one guy here but the nasty, howling masses have been pretty visible lately.
I think he means Fish didn't really deserved to be sympathized at.
No one deserve an attack like this.
You may want to clarify this, because the implication is you support what happened.
Don't worry about it, it just says more about you as a person than anything else.
RelentlessRolento
Member
There's this thing called empathy that I think plays into this.
It could probably go either way. Either he gets the feeling that he doesn't have much to lose and goes all out, or he hammers the nail into the coffin and just deletes all his social media. He's a pretty unpredictable fella, I wouldn't bet on it.
he might say a lot of things but they're just words. nothing he said should make him a victim of this.
TheLostBigBoss
Banned
If I had a guess, I would assume that he uses a program that stores all his passwords for ease of access to sites. Either someone/a group cracked his private key (Not likely) or they got a hold of the master password to access that program. Social hacking probably had something to do with it too, that's a common way to get into shit to start getting some leaks on the boat so to speak.
I'm not sure, I'm not entirely familiar with those master key systems, I don't use them.
matrixman92
Member
I know for damn sure people will disagree with me. But why would /v/ come out and say this was them? they dont do that. Even on /v/ people are saying its dumb and an obvious attempt to get some ammo against them in the whole situation.
inb4hurdurconspiracytheorist
inb4hurdurconspiracytheorist
the gaming wars...begun they have.
-MD-
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Nowhere in his post is that implied.
Danny Dudekisser
I paid good money for this Dynex!
Funny thing, that. I never liked the guy, and now, I genuinely wish there was something I could do to help him out.
codswallop
Member
I reckon they accessed his primary email, either by guessing the password, socially engineering support staff to get the password reset on his primary email, or something along those lines. Another method (if the primary email is a domain account, not a free one like Gmail) is getting access to the domain control panel and redirecting the email to another account you control.
Once you have access to someone's "primary" email account, you start going to websites like 1Password, KeePass, LastPass, Amazon, etc and requesting password resets, and suddenly you have access to the lot.
This is why you need a separate "password reset" email account you only use for password resets, and you never, ever, ever record the details anywhere, not even in a password manager.
People lacking empathy for others, even if they don't know them, aren't people I'd like to know.
He moved to Nashville.
Glass Shark
Banned
After this week, I really can't blame them.
Yes, because clearly being a dick is grounds to people breaking the god damn law to fuck with you and people you've associated with.
This isnt a great way to look at things, I definately wouldn't love reading this if I did know them personally. Be a little human about it, it sucks for this to happen and he didnt deserve it, you know that, or atleast should.
ActuallyHulk
Banned
Ohhhh I missed that bit of info. Well alright then.
Going by his Twitter account, I believe he lives in Nashville now.
Most hobbies don't have journalists. Only entertainment medium? Eh I don't know there are plenty of musicians and film producers that probably despise their audience, although I'm not sure anyone in any other industry expresses their contempt as openly as games jurnalizts do.
The fuck?
Dragonborn
Member
Why not? It's a stupid reaction blaming all gamers when it's only a few that pull this kind of crap
Yes, I got that. But Fish wasn't some criminal. He's just a very outspoken individual with inability to think before tweeting. The worst he has ever done was to be smug and a jerk to people. If someone thinks that Fish doesn't deserve sympathy because he might be an asshole at times, then I think he/she is cold hearted and should really look themselves in the mirror.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Jesus christ people.
Get some of your priorities straight. Nothing he has done deserves this.
JetBlackPanda
Member
Wot.
Glass Shark
Banned
It may be a few actually doing the harassing and doxxing, but the entire culture contributes to it.
bearythebear
Member
The fucked up part is that people will think that Phil Fish is behind the hack...
Sub_Level
wants to fuck an Asian grill.
I think the general consensus is that it's either false flag or double false flag.
Dragonborn
Member
How exactly is that true? What culture?
TheLostBigBoss
Banned
...Who would possibly think that?
Twenty dogecoins on double false flag.
Oh please.
How many people on Reddit, NeoGaf, IGN, and 4chan make up the current, and relevant, gaming population? When you say gamers, what you're also saying is consumers. Casting venom at people willy nilly will solve absolutely nothing.
While these criminals might only be few in number, we do need to do our part to quell this rising movement against those that would dare to bring up uncomfortable issues in gaming. Anyone who's looked into the replies of any twitter message by Zoe knows that they are not that small in number, and it's our responsibility to counterbalance against the puerile hatred.
And for anyone still using the term "SJW" unironically, cut it out. Like, right now. Seriously.
And for anyone still using the term "SJW" unironically, cut it out. Like, right now. Seriously.
This. I feel like a lot of his actions have led him to deserve a few good punches square in the face, but no one deserves having this much information leaked about them.
matrixman92
Member
there was just a whole thread on /v/ with nobody saying it was them. Nobody there agreed with this. Conveniently the thread was deleted around 300 posts in for no reason
Zombie James
Banned
Remember when Sessler equated gamers with WMD arms traders (or something like that)?
Edit - Found it: https://mobile.twitter.com/AdamSessler/status/398142694653837312
FloweryMarston
Member
Yeah, gaming has a lot of great things to it, and helped a lot of people to go through some harsh moments in their lives, including me. I hope no one in the industry gets burned out by what is happening right now or thinks that this is the whole community.
For the thread, truly disgusting, my week have been really shitty because of some things and this whole situation was just the cherry on top that I didn't want. Hope that phil lands on his feet and solves this problem quickly =(
The ones that do usually have some kind of overlap, pro-ams who have taken to writing, or some other link. What they don't have is interaction with and incentives to get close to media publishers with options to join the family years down the line.
Dragonborn
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Especially when those consumers are your lifeblood
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