Had a migraine most of today. Gonna go to sleep soon. But first some updates on the status of children and hacking.

  1. Several days ago (or maybe a week or more ago) a student made several sock-puppet accounts and accused several other students of “hacking” a game on our site. This user presented no tangible evidence and merely asserted that these alleged hackers were doing much better than could realistically be expected at this game.

  2. Not related to the game: A totally different student made a screencast of a fake “hacking” of his friend’s account. The “code” for the hacking was roughly as realistic as something that you would see in a low budget media production (which is to say, it was syntax-colored text on a black background but meaningless to anyone who knew anything about code). The output of the hack showed publicly available (or guessable) information, and had convenient censor-bars over the information that the “hacker” couldn’t possibly know. The friend freaked out and reported the fake-hacker.

  3. Back to the game! Today a student posted on a public part of our site fairly specific information on how to elevate a normal user account to admin-level privileges in the game. The game has been taken offline.