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Introductions Archive / Charcoal Sketch here...
2012 Sep 23, 20:29:28
... hoping to get a chance to play before the inevitable server crash from everyone ELSE wanting to play.
I'm the crazy guy that runs drawsomeponies.tumblr.com and askfloofcat.tumblr.com
I'm also notorious for beta testing games; I've been doing it for decades. Haven't been doing much of it lately, and haven't tried to get into any closed beta or alpha testing; haven't had the time to do it my way, and got turned off by the last company I was doing it for. Want to know more?
Long story time. I worked with a team on an alpha, and did my usual bit; I tried to disassemble the client and find ways of totally crashing the game for other players, actually found some, and reported them to the staff. I also scoured staff and tester pages, and found a weakness in the password system, and logged in as the administrators themselves.
The staff was grateful for all the work I did, and were looking forwards to seeing me in the beta. When it went to beta, they were working under a different master group, as the game changed hands. I retested some of the alpha bugs, and found they had returned, and found a few new vulnerabilities. I wrote up a three page report on what was wrong and how to fix it.
The response? "You have been banned for life for hacking."
Yep, thanks to someone not understanding the fact that I was TESTING for hack possibilities, and trying to close them, they lost someone who was willing to spend 5 hours a day, seven days a week, with extra hours possible, who would be looking for anything that needed fixing, from major problems down to misplaced apostrophes.
In any case, I'll mess around when it's stress test time, but only to enjoy myself. I'll let someone else worry about major server stress and security tests.
I'm the crazy guy that runs drawsomeponies.tumblr.com and askfloofcat.tumblr.com
I'm also notorious for beta testing games; I've been doing it for decades. Haven't been doing much of it lately, and haven't tried to get into any closed beta or alpha testing; haven't had the time to do it my way, and got turned off by the last company I was doing it for. Want to know more?
Long story time. I worked with a team on an alpha, and did my usual bit; I tried to disassemble the client and find ways of totally crashing the game for other players, actually found some, and reported them to the staff. I also scoured staff and tester pages, and found a weakness in the password system, and logged in as the administrators themselves.
The staff was grateful for all the work I did, and were looking forwards to seeing me in the beta. When it went to beta, they were working under a different master group, as the game changed hands. I retested some of the alpha bugs, and found they had returned, and found a few new vulnerabilities. I wrote up a three page report on what was wrong and how to fix it.
The response? "You have been banned for life for hacking."
Yep, thanks to someone not understanding the fact that I was TESTING for hack possibilities, and trying to close them, they lost someone who was willing to spend 5 hours a day, seven days a week, with extra hours possible, who would be looking for anything that needed fixing, from major problems down to misplaced apostrophes.
In any case, I'll mess around when it's stress test time, but only to enjoy myself. I'll let someone else worry about major server stress and security tests.
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