Ohhh Flame war! While I was away doing stuff for GS. No fair! 🙁

I am/was not much into MBB. Didn’t have much time to participate actively. I followed some discussions on the forum for a while though. I do know Carrot was active there, as was Shah, Jevin, Morinn and the rest of the crew.

By the way, since this is not my article, I won’t make comments on the contents or the issues in. I’ll leave that to the author. Only thing I might say is that the title is not appropriate. Not much of a “story behind” in here, more of an observation. No background info was given on MBB so no story behind.

And I don’t think it has anything to do with a weak passwords here. The domain may not have been renewed, and the blog could have changed hands on Blogspot. Doesn’t indicate any hacking attempt, as far as I know. In any case, cracking passwords by sheer brute-force is tough. Even guessing is somewhat tough.

But do resume! Argue!! I like spectating flame wars! 😀

@Kurt: Brute force is indeed old, and easily noticeable nowadays. Like, you can’t try more than 3 passwords before getting locked out of an account on most services.

Phishing is very effective, but only against people who are not careful. There are ways to detect a phishing attack, if you are vigilant enough.

There are even more powerful attacks to get accounts, but it’s not a security post, is it?

About MBB, I don’t see why we are fighting here about a dead site. In fact, we had an idea about something like MBB, but it’s still just a concept. I’ll write a post about it soon maybe.