Ft. Knox heist
Day 434, 19:13
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by Hurling
http://www.erepublik.com/en/organization/1095752
Looks like we need to ask Brazil to annex us. [/end sarcasm[
[All following attributions are to IRC nicks. IRC and I have no way of confirming that IRC nicks correspond to eRep user names or to anyone in real life.]
I was lurking on IRC earlier and Franco freely admitted to hijacking the forums after he was widely accused of robbing Ft. Knox. The sequence of events there is significant. He appeared to submit to an interview with Chris (admin?). He consistently denied looting the treasury.
Later amid the clutter of chat gibberish, a user Alee_Ann managed a non-emotional exchange in which Franco agreed to sleep on it and not go nuclear on our forum. Alle (credibly claimed to be a lawyer) did a wonderful job as impartial mediator. We all owe her [?] a debt of gratitude for defusing the tension and arriving at a reasonable compromise. Film at eleven.
Since then Franco has returned to IRC #us and more or less bragged about the mayhem. My gut feeling is that he is a very young person impressed with our opinion of his power and skill. I don’t think he’s smart enough to have done this, but he is emotionally needy enough to want us to believe that he did.
Who did this is not the critical issue in the short run. Recovering our treasury and implementing effective controls is far more important to our survival and success.
Perhaps coincidentally, all of my personal gold and USD disappeared for a few hours this morning. Not that one was converted to another, but both balances went to zero. I submitted a message to the admins and later today all was restored. Someone else on IRC recounted a similar story.
We may simply have another bug from the latest "upgrade". We may have a hacker. I don't think that at this moment we have a good idea what happened.I do worry that we're about to get clobbered by well-financed opportunistic enemies in our time of weakness.
I'm not predicting it, but I am worried.
Looks like we need to ask Brazil to annex us. [/end sarcasm[
[All following attributions are to IRC nicks. IRC and I have no way of confirming that IRC nicks correspond to eRep user names or to anyone in real life.]
I was lurking on IRC earlier and Franco freely admitted to hijacking the forums after he was widely accused of robbing Ft. Knox. The sequence of events there is significant. He appeared to submit to an interview with Chris (admin?). He consistently denied looting the treasury.
Later amid the clutter of chat gibberish, a user Alee_Ann managed a non-emotional exchange in which Franco agreed to sleep on it and not go nuclear on our forum. Alle (credibly claimed to be a lawyer) did a wonderful job as impartial mediator. We all owe her [?] a debt of gratitude for defusing the tension and arriving at a reasonable compromise. Film at eleven.
Since then Franco has returned to IRC #us and more or less bragged about the mayhem. My gut feeling is that he is a very young person impressed with our opinion of his power and skill. I don’t think he’s smart enough to have done this, but he is emotionally needy enough to want us to believe that he did.
Who did this is not the critical issue in the short run. Recovering our treasury and implementing effective controls is far more important to our survival and success.
Perhaps coincidentally, all of my personal gold and USD disappeared for a few hours this morning. Not that one was converted to another, but both balances went to zero. I submitted a message to the admins and later today all was restored. Someone else on IRC recounted a similar story.
We may simply have another bug from the latest "upgrade". We may have a hacker. I don't think that at this moment we have a good idea what happened.I do worry that we're about to get clobbered by well-financed opportunistic enemies in our time of weakness.
I'm not predicting it, but I am worried.
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I am not smart enough to hack the Federal Reserve, true that. I am smart enough to post a redirect link, obviously.
I've been in talks with a few people I trust about getting the forums up. Alee, among others. The fact is, I shut it down for one reason, one which I won't disclose. I don't have to disclose it. I won't and am not holding it hostage and hope to meet soon to easily transfer it from myself to whomever is going to host it.
Also, please don't speculate as to my mental capacities and/or feelings. It's just wrong and largely off base. I'm not sure what is wrong with your gold, contact the admins via contact form or email, PM me if you want some admin's email addresses.
I wouldn't say I bragged. I was joyful at seeing some of the people who worked at getting my experiment in South Korea destroyed suffer, yes, but I wasn't happy to make the general populous made. I weighed the consequences versus the obvious pros for me and made the very selfish decision.
Also, I'm 16. That doesn't mean jack squat, unfortunately. Intelligence and how you use it is all that matters.
Jamon, people like you are why I took down the forums. Why should I continue to foot the bill for forums in which people openly insult me and berate me, often behind my back, and conspire to ruin any fun I have in this game for no other reason than spite?
Because you insulted me on the forums as well as others. But after reading your previous post i do apologize for my negligence and complete hypocrisy. I do believe that you are innocent until proven guilty. I wouldn't say that i am really that upset either, i take this game as for what it is, a game. Although, that being said, i thought that the re-linking of the forums was unfair and i was upset about that. I think that after this mess, the eUSA will move on and fix the current problems created by this mess. Like all disasters, there comes solutions. Hopefully everyone can put this behind us.