DBB and the NSA

Kilarin · Post by **Kilarin** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 12:14 am

I was posting in the \"torture\" topic. Got the white screen of annoyance, hit back and submit again, and got, you guessed it, double post. so I edit the 2nd, check \"delete\", click submit then YES, white screen of annoyance. I back out and I don't THINK I clicked YES again, but I wouldn't swear to it. I went to the main menu, and ethics and commentary showed the most recent topic as being \"blank\", which made me nervous. I pulled up E&C so I could see whether I had actually deleted my post or not, and...

no torture topic.

So, I'm thinking, perhaps since no one has Nazi moderated me, I decided to Nazi moderate myself?

Nah, it has to be something more insidious than that!

I suspect that the president of the united states has been monitoring my conversations via the NSA. Homeland security was notified about how I unflatteringly compared the president to a llamma, and they \"dissapeared\" the entire topic.

You know, this completely explains the entire \"debug\" and \"white screen\" problem. You will note that the error usually has a list of the words used in your message. The NSA has noted the DBB as a major source of political dissidence and inserted a virus into its code. The delays are caused when the virus sends info back to the NSA for scanning, and the errors happen when CARNIVORE or ECHELON doesn't respond quickly enough. the \"Error\" message is actually a list of what was being sent to Homeland Security and didn't arrive.

As proof of this, I pulled up my profile and searched for all my recent messages. Sure enough, there is my last post in the \"torture\" topic. I click on it, and there is the entire topic. I go back to the main E&C menu, and the topic is back now. JUST LIKE IT HAD NEVER GONE!

OBVIOUSLY, the NSA was STILL monitoring me. The saw that I had noticed the \"dissapeard\" topic, and decided to replace it before I could arouse suspicion aobut their activities involving the DBB. BUT, I WILL NOT be tricked like that. Therefore this message. The word must be gotten out.

THEY ARE LISTENING...

roid · Post by **roid** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 1:16 am

anyone who reads this thread will be killed

World War Woodi · Post by **World War Woodi** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 1:31 am

Hi ! uhhhh killed?

CRAP

I wasnt here

I mean err , wheres the damn edit button, I didnt read it really.

poof

now im dead ,

Damt Roid I will kill you back !

Kilarin · Post by **Kilarin** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 6:58 am

roid wrote:anyone who reads this thread will be killed

And we KNEW they had to have an inside spy. Obviously roid is the NSA mole! He even managed to worm his way into a moderatorship!

Ferno · Post by **Ferno** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 7:13 am

heh. well if they have to listen in on what everyone is saying, they're doing something wrong.

I for one dare them to come after me for what I say.

Avder · Post by **Avder** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 1:04 pm

And I thought I was paranoid....

Ferno · Post by **Ferno** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 2:06 pm

paranoia has nothing to do with it.

it's been pretty much put into our faces that domestic spying is happening. But do I care what they think?

Hell no.

Top Gun · Post by **Top Gun** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 2:18 pm

Avder wrote:And I thought I was paranoid....

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you...

roid · Post by **roid** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 1:16 am

i jsut got the same problem Kilaran had, but with the \"Swedish feminists\" topic in E&C.

after i posted in it, it was for a while not listed on the E&C thread list. although i was still able to access the thread if i accessed it's url from my history.

then some minutes later it reappeared on the E&C thread list as if nothing had happened.

Neo · Post by **Neo** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 6:49 am

Kilarin · Post by **Kilarin** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 8:06 am

roid wrote:i jsut got the same problem Kilaran had

darnit, now we have to go looking for a different NSA mole.

Avder · Post by **Avder** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 10:29 pm

Maybe the server the DBB is hosted on is haunted

roid · Post by **roid** » Sat Feb 25, 2006 2:00 am

just did it yet AGAIN on the swedish thread.

what's happening is that i post a message.
then i'm trying to edit it... trying ... trying...
then i just give up (stupid white screen).
then i instead delete my old message, planning to edit it and repost it afresh.
then i notice the entire thread is GONE!
Then 10-15mins later it's back.

MD-2389 · Post by **MD-2389** » Sat Feb 25, 2006 12:24 pm

Sounds like the database is corrupted.

D3Phoenix · Post by **D3Phoenix** » Sat Feb 25, 2006 2:07 pm

Has happened to me, personally, twice.

Once with the D2X-XL Q&A thread, once with one of my own threads. I think the same happened to Diedel himself at one point.

And the white screen of death is really getting out of hand, lol... Anybody know of a tool that might be able to scan the DBB and fix any database corruption?? I'm no expert with SQL or PHP, or even PHPBB, so I wouldn't know.

Diedel · Post by **Diedel** » Sat Feb 25, 2006 4:09 pm

If you delete a post, you are given an error message \"you can only delete your own posts\" or so. This looks like for some reason the DBB code continues to delete the last post until the thread is empty. Poof.

I really wonder wtf is up with the forum lately. I didn't donate money to get DBB server operations like this.

Diedel · Post by **Diedel** » Sat Feb 25, 2006 4:11 pm

Oh man, another thought - and I won't edit my above post.

Kilarin mentioned that particularly if editing a post, you can get some error message quoting most of the words of your post. This looks like some word filter tries to process the post and screws up.

Btw,

@ Kilarin.

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