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#1 2011-05-28 20:51:42
- parcheesidude
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The "L" Security breach(when your username has an L)
note carefully. If your username has an L in it, then you could be impersonated. Someone could make an account with seemingly the same name, but it is not, so the computer accepts it.
Like this:
liam123 is the original. Someone comes and makes a new account with the L as a capital i. So now it would be "capital i"iam123. This could have happened to you if someone says that they told you not to come back
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#3 2011-05-28 21:42:26
- gettysburg11
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Re: The "L" Security breach(when your username has an L)
This has been done before. Still, there isn't really a whole lot you can do about it. You just have to be smart.
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#4 2011-05-28 21:43:32
Re: The "L" Security breach(when your username has an L)
gettysburg11 wrote:
This has been done before. Still, there isn't really a whole lot you can do about it. You just have to be smart.
You can always look @ their post count. & their user page 
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#5 2011-05-28 21:43:55
- gettysburg11
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Re: The "L" Security breach(when your username has an L)
ssss wrote:
gettysburg11 wrote:
This has been done before. Still, there isn't really a whole lot you can do about it. You just have to be smart.
You can always look @ their post count. & their user page
OK, you can be smart and do that. 
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#6 2011-05-28 21:44:59
Re: The "L" Security breach(when your username has an L)
gettysburg11 wrote:
ssss wrote:
gettysburg11 wrote:
This has been done before. Still, there isn't really a whole lot you can do about it. You just have to be smart.
You can always look @ their post count. & their user page
OK, you can be smart and do that.
Lol - yes, very smart!
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#7 2011-05-29 09:16:22
Re: The "L" Security breach(when your username has an L)
This is only for the lowercase L people (whew), and you can report the person anyway.
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#8 2011-05-29 09:28:29
- scimonster
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Re: The "L" Security breach(when your username has an L)
No way to stop it. Also a capital "I" can be done with a lowercase "l"
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#10 2011-06-01 17:14:02
Re: The "L" Security breach(when your username has an L)
if someone was banned he/she could create a new account or just fall back on an alt you guys do realize? I've been banned from stuff by corrupt mods before (don't worry not scratch) and just came back with a alt and uploaded all of my stuff from my files back onto the site like nothing happened. so even if you banned a email they could still come back the only way to truly ban someone is to ip ban them and even that can be worked around by proxy servers so really anyone that is dertimened enough can get around even a ip ban and i can't think of a way to fool-proof ban anyone unless you went to their house and set parental controls to block the internet with a random unguessable pin code really.
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#11 2011-06-02 12:51:20
- CloneCommando1
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Re: The "L" Security breach(when your username has an L)
They should really fix this. And fast. But still, as long as they're not on your account, you're ok.
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#12 2011-06-02 12:52:44
- CloneCommando1
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Re: The "L" Security breach(when your username has an L)
Now that I think of it, impersonators might be able to replace an "O" with an "0". But I'm not sure.
Last edited by CloneCommando1 (2011-06-02 12:53:07)
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#13 2011-06-02 20:03:15
Re: The "L" Security breach(when your username has an L)
CloneCommando1 wrote:
They should really fix this. And fast. But still, as long as they're not on your account, you're ok.
and thank god they aren't ever gonna be
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#14 2011-06-02 20:18:34
- jji7skyline
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Re: The "L" Security breach(when your username has an L)
ssss wrote:
gettysburg11 wrote:
This has been done before. Still, there isn't really a whole lot you can do about it. You just have to be smart.
You can always look @ their post count. & their user page
I agree, its quite obvious...
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#15 2011-06-02 21:08:10
Re: The "L" Security breach(when your username has an L)
Uh why don't you just grab those accounts before anyone else does?
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