Disapointed to say the least
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by Etemenanki
Well as you are all no doubt aware it has once again happened. A democratically elected country president (Prime Minister) has liquidated everything and walked away with it all. The organizations National Bank of Canada and NBC Vault have had their entire assets taken, transferred out of them using the monetary market, the Austrian currency ATS for specificity.
As your current sitting Minister of Finance it shames me to have to say that I have failed you the eCanadian people. As the Minister of Finance it is my job to protect these funds, to nurture them and when possible to grow them. I started this most recent term with approximately 2800 gold in assets, and it seems that at the end of my current term as Minister of Finance I will be leaving you with nothing.
I have put countless hours into working for the people in this game, the vast bulk of whom I have never met personally or even talked too. I am a consummate forumer but mostly in congress, I also rarely go on IRC so many of you doubtless even know me. I would like to think I am a trustworthy individual, but I would understand if thoughts were different at this point
Some of you will ask why the system we have now exists. I would point to the admins on that one. Because of the Peace Proposal option, enemy countries are capable of demanding a sum of currency from the treasury, effectively removing these funds from our access for approximately 48 hours I believe it is. As such, much more than a couple hundred of gold in the treasury is usually greatly frowned upon as it can greatly harm a country at it’s most dire time of need. Canada, and most of the other countries of the world keep most of their finances in outside organizations, operated by the government, passed on from one administration to another.
I first took command of the two orgs in question in October and have to this point changed the passwords a total of 6 times. I also put e-mail addresses in which were solely known by me, as well as putting myself and the Prime Minister at the time as the “manager” (I have no idea what this actually does). To the best of my knowledge, the only people whom knew the passwords to the organization are myself and Wes Lewis.
Wes has stated that he believes it was some form of hacker. To be blunt, I think he’s full of it. KronosQ has used his vast information of the forums as an admin to bring forth some fairly good evidence to show that this apparent hacker is located at an IP address located right around the same place in Kentucky which Wes has stated before that he resides. The odds of this random hacker being so close to Wes are remote. The odds that this random hacker would be familiar enough with the Rolo situation that happened previously and the Mayhem controversy are infinitesimal. The odds that this random hacker would use the monetary market rather than just transferring the funds somewhere we couldn’t get them are pretty low too.
Wes can claim he was working hard for eCanada, of which I believe he would be truthful in saying. Presuming the various things that have been talked about in congress are true, things were looking to go in a very good direction. Now things have gotten even lower than they were after Rolo stole everything. We the government do not have another organization with 2000 gold in it to miraculously recover this time around.
Even if, and I once again state, I don’t believe it, his account was hacked, Wes has failed us in the most basic regard. He has run away once again from his responsibility. He has effectively informed us today we are on our own. To add insult to injury he apparently found the time today to have an interview with an American in which he quite handedly trashes Canadian citizens as being inactive and prone to talking without action to follow it up:
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/oh-canada-exclusive-with-wes-lewis-1632889/1/20
If you do still believe that Wes was hacked, then I must ask a few questions of you. Firstly, what are the odds that the IP of the hacker was so geographically close to Wes’s actual location? Secondly, if it was a random hacker, how did they know the stuff about Mayhem and Rolo. Thirdly why has Wes been able to recover his account? The “hackers” seem to have done everything right when it comes to eliminating our access too the two organizations; removing e-mail address, changing passwords. So why has Wes been capable of keeping his account? Why would the hacker not have altered his and not allowed him to access his own account? The only reason I can think of is that Wes made this hacker up.
Most people sat around and shook their heads when Rolo committed a likewise crime. I note he still has access to the ecan IRC. I strongly encourage Wes’s access to be permanently removed and banned from IRC, and to throw in Rolo for free. To continue to allow these two to poison this well is ludicrous.
Now I would like to officially tender my resignation as Minister of Finance for the Wes Lewis administration. Wes, you had promise, and you have thrown it all away now. I don’t know why you did it, but nothing short of a miracle will convince me you didn’t do it. I would be willing to accept a position in the next administration (coming in about 14 hours) should they desire me to be a part of it. Should they not, I would also understand that position.
Below you will find links for all of the records which I have kept for you the eCanadian people dating back to October.
October: https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AiqJdLt5DugkdEN4OUM3b3AxbEZ1OG5IbkFoWGk2Tmc&hl=en&authkey=CIu2740O
November: https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AiqJdLt5DugkdFBJUlFfU2ZIZ0NRZzRELVV2VjM5Z0E&hl=en&authkey=CLK92LwK
December: https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AiqJdLt5DugkdFoxNG55eXpEdW4wZWxsdzhyVWVTWEE&hl=en&authkey=CNG4wPcM
January: https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AiqJdLt5DugkdERvRU96SUdMaTNPMzdQcjI4NDdKNmc&hl=en&authkey=CPHUOg
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You're a helluvan asset around here, Etem. Cheers bro.
We move forward.
First, second, third points are all well made. No way the proximity and knowledge of eCanada would have just been stumbled upon by a hacker.
Etemenanki, I hope resigning from this administration doesn't mean any other sort of resignation on your part. Keep at it and things will sort out with time. It's the undoing of effort by people like yourself that is the real disappointment here.
lame excuses are lame.
You've done a great job etem and i am sure we'll bounce back 😃
Wes is useless to eCanada. He should be removed from the social community, along with his roleplay father figure, Rolo Tahmasee.
It's time we actually stood up to snakes and fakes instead of just rebuking them verbally.
Etem is one of THE most trustworthy and hard working eCanadians we have.
We move forward x2
Etem, eCanada needs you to remain active and involved. You are an integral part of eCan!
And yes, thank you for being an HONEST PERSON Etemenanki.
o7
I know I often (usually) disagree with you, but you are definitely a hard working eCanadian!
I put it in the article, but apparently it's been overlooked. I am willing to join the next adminstration if they so desire it.
Thank you all, I do not intend to go anywhere. I wouldn't give them the satisfaction.
jsboutin: We may argue and complain about each other often, but I also acknowledge that you are a hard working eCanadian as well. We simply have different ways of doing things, plus different agendas. MoF and MoD have a long and storied history of being at each others throats.
Wes: While all of that may be possible, it still does not explain the second or third points. Your very being here is a constant factor against the hacker assertion.
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lol Wes stfu.
Regarding Etemenaki, I met the fellow in RL and I would definitely trust him with my treasury.
What was done is done. What we must do is learn from our mistakes as clearly we ignored the lessons in the Rolo case.
The admins made an option to state the owners of orgs. Why did we not do that? Admins could easily catch wes AND refund our gold in that respect. This is just one of the many blunders our leaders made. Sometimes it's those to allow crooks to get away with it that are just as responsible for the crime as the crooks themselves.
Our leaders can't even come up with simple security measures even AFTER they suffer an accident like the Rolo case..
Shameful.
One thing should be said.
Etem has the balls to come out here and take the blame, even if he's not at fault. Some should learn from such behavior.
For the record (Octo) the orgs were submitted to the Admins as official Gov property. It remains to be seen whether they will be restored to the next President of eCanada.
@ Wes Lewis
Kinda strange how the ICA was robbed of 1500 Gold worth of stuff shortly after you had been given access to the central org, eh? I can tell you this much, you are now banned from #eICA for life. So no more coming in asking our guys(who have Irish citizenship) if they still have their vote left to come vote for you in Canadian elections. Don't attempt to speak to me either in-game or on IRC ever again. I have given you the benefit of the doubt too many times now and this is the last straw.
@Etemenanki
You are above reproach in my eyes. Canada is lucky to have someone as dedicated as you are to your duties here. Time after time you do the work without making a big fuss about it. Any administration should strongly consider you for the position of MoF.
Bann them for life! It is making me sick that these individuals are allowed to crawl in the warm womb we call the eCanadian community.
Why not send the case to the eRep admins ? They could freeze the accounts containing the missing Gold & money.
Totally not your faut Etem! ... oh and this - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5R_pS0h5Qk&feature=related
Etemenanki, I really empathize. I was Rolo's MoF and I felt the same guilt.
You can't prevent management override and that is what Wes did. You are an asset to eCanada and really look up to you and the work you've done. Keep your chin up.
Make recommendations to prevent and improve, that is all that you can do.
Thank you for your service, Etemenanki.
Here's hoping the bad apples don't run all the honest citizens out of politics.
Groovy