Hello,
I am the individual known as Guillem (btw, thanks for giving that out, I had no intention to) who Sam has been talking about for the last day. I don't know what this will exactly get me, but it surely will be nothing good from most of you. I believe all the information you need is in the following message I sent to Sam a minute ago:
Message start:
Sam, the fact that I didn't respond has nothing to do with any of this. I ended up going to bed, so I had no idea you even sent a message. yes, I did leave my computer on, I do that all the time. But if you really want to know what happened, then I will tell you. Yes, Mason's security is total and complete shit. Actually, I should say, it's nonexistant. I've had his password for half a god damn year, and have managed to get it from different systems about 3 times without him even noticing, thanks to the help of some other person whom I shall not mention. We never, ever used it for anything, and I am being 100% truthful here, believe it or not. I've told Mason himself a few times that he should implement security, and he didn't give a shit about it. Literally everything someone had to do to get a user's password was download a file from an http server and open it in notepad. All the passwords, including mine and even yours, were right there. Some of us were smart enough to use fake passwords because there was no way to trust Mason. I had absolutely no intention of using hihs password whatsoever, since I do not support this sort of stuff (yes, I have been hacked myself and it was my own fault, I know what it feels like). I had pretty much given up on Mason's security issue, though. I was never a fan of his games, but I never intended on causing them damage. But when I heard about the whole thing with Mason getting hacked for the first time, I admit, I found it a bit funny. I found it funny that someone had actually stumbled uppon Mason's security issue and used it to actually hack into Mason's account. Or so I thought. When after loads of yelling, public screams for help like the audiogames.net thread and two mass skype messages, he announced it had been nothing but a prank, was the last straw. I ahd no intention of causing damage to him or anyone involved with his life, but he wasn't going to learn from people yelling at him about his security. Maybe I was a bit too hyper, maybe I thought that woudl be a way to make him learn, but the point is, me and the other person did get into his twitter and his skype. No matter how hyper or whatever the heck i was, I took extra care not to do anything that would endanger him or anyone who got involved in the process, but I did take care to do enough so he noticed that his security couldn't hold up to much, if anything. I didn't see it as a hostile move to cause him trouble, but as a nudge for him to actually get off his butt and code actual security into his projects, because he is not the only one being affected by this. He is putting absolutely all of you in risk. All of you who play his games, have your passwords stored as plain text. Yes, I did have people ask me what his password was when I casually told someone that Mason's security was bad. And I think you will agree with me on the fact that, no matter how much I make fun of his security, I don't want to give personal information like that out. I didn't think it was safe enough in my hands, let alone in the hands of someone who wants it to, quote, give himself an infinite level on ultrapower and ban all the admins, unquote. All of the stuff that me and my friend did was not meant to cause any damage, again. Hell, I thought Mason would have noticed when I literally started having conversations with himself on his own timeline. That's pretty much the whole story. I know this will get me yelled at, because no matter how I thought of what I did, I'm sure every one of you will just see it as a hack with no good intentions. But that's your choice. I know why I did what I did and that's enough for me. If Mason learns from this, I am happy, even if he hates my guts for the rest of his life. Oh, about your sourcecode going public, I have no idea how that happened. I gave absolutely nothing out, and I am 100% certain that other person didn't either. Right, that's all, I believe. Your move. Think what you will.
Message end.
For some of you this might be surprising, and for some of you who I have never met before, I know this is not a very good starting point. But like I said, think what you will. I did all that needed to be done and now it's not my business any more than it needs to be.
Thank you.
A fight we cannot lose.
An enemy we cannot defeat.
A destiny we cannot escape.
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