Ex PN Leader Open Sources Griefer Weapons
by Pixeleen Mistral on 24/09/07 at 4:35 pm
by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk
Taking a cue from game developer Linden Lab, Mudkips Acronym has embraced open source software and published scripts for griefing weapons used by the notorious “Patriotic Nigras” griefing gang. Previously access to these scripts was limited to those who asked nicely, or passed some sort of initiation to join one of the gangs.
By opening the formerly proprietary tools to community development, Mr. Acronym presumably hopes to help the community by enlisting more people for testing – and innovating – with the PN tools platform. Sources report that Mr. Acronym was tired of being IM’ed and e-mailed with requests for the scripts, and decided to simply publish them at his web site: tetravalency.org. Apparently software support headaches are universal and even extend those with software designed to be annoying.
Mudkips Acronym – sometimes known as Mootykips – is the founder and former acting leader of the PN, but recently stepped down to pursue other interests and spend more time with his family. By publishing scripts and detailed instructions for the assembly of various weapons such as the Autocager, Lulz Turtle Block Bomb, Grid Infector, IM Spoofer, Siezurecube, Money Thief Script, and Mass Client Flooder, Mr. Acronym apparently hopes to remain a contestant in the stupendous ironic badass race – and achieve Plastic Duck-like status in the metaverse.
Lulz turtles go open source
Of nearly universal interest is the note on “How to raid SL without getting banned”. This document describes in some detail how to evade Linden Lab’s hardware and IP address bans. Long-time residents of Second Life have grown used to the idea that hardware and IP address bans are ineffective – and the recipe books provides some insight into why this is true. Why the Lindens are unwilling to require some form of payment to enter the metaverse – which would slow if not stop the flood of script kiddies – is unclear. Some believe this is connected to advertising imperatives overruling the security of residents.
Why the griefers keep coming back
When the Herald asked a few scripting experts to examine the recipes, the consensus was that these weapons are not very impressive. Poor documentation of the code itself was cited as a general problem and a number of the weapons do not perform well or at all. Perhaps part of some recipes has been withheld, or the weapons depend on quirks in the world that no longer exist?
The notes on how the mass client flooder functions are representative instructions included with the various script kiddie toys:
“Basically, it picks up the nearest 16 avatars (llsensor has a limit of 16 objects or players at any given time) and floods them with an animation request. The blue animation request dialog boxes only have a yes or no button, lol no mute button though. Also, if you are typing in chat and a box pops up in the corner, it stops and brings the box to the front as if you had clicked it so this thing makes it impossible to type in chat once you’re being targeted. Therefore, unless they managed to wander out of its range or crash and relogin to a new region, they won’t be able to report you. Sometimes it seems to delay my ban by a few minutes and other times it seems to increase the time. I think it depends on if a linden walks into the sim or happens to come into range. It also does two other things, every avatar that gets spammed has their named copied and then the object changes its name to theirs and shouts a message.”
It remains to be seen if Linden Lab will take effective action against this sort of gameplay. Certainly the Lab’s movement to open sourcing the SL client would seem to simplify the task for sidestepping server-based bans – although mandatory client updates can apparently require a few days of effort to create a workaround, according to our sources. However, once a new version of the patched SL client – Shooped Life – is available, the griefers can continue their play. The disruptive effect of last week’s mandatory client upgrade may account for the recent decline in large scale griefing incidents. Presumably a new version of Shooped Life will become generally available in due course, and the game will continue.
The Herald’s two part Inside the PN series continues tomorrow.
Auto cage recipe
Thor
Sep 24th, 2007
Sounds like someone was testing out these at Anshe Islands Last week, they all fit the descriptions. The Ninja Turtle Block bomb came first, then the mass flooder.
Fed up
Sep 24th, 2007
All the more reason to leave the game. At one point it was kinda fun but morons like these have med it just a platform for crap like this. Tired of throwing money at a game that has inane assholes like the PN that have nothing better to do than to ruin it for people.
Second Lulz Vigilante
Sep 24th, 2007
“It remains to be seen if Linden Lab will take effective action against this sort of gameplay.”
lol! Linden Lab can barely find their butts in the dark with both hands.
I’m more interested to see what will happen to SL if the following goes on for very long:
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jQzi5PyAwAr5bluV-e5PR-TjKyMA
Will griefing decrease if a lot of griefers and their victims are dealing with this? General Motors is serious fucking business.
DaveOner
Sep 24th, 2007
I’ve never understood why someone would want to spend all this time just to figure out elaborate ways to annoy people. I know the idea is that they view their targets as pathetic people that take things too seriously or whatever the mantra is now. Unfortunately for them it really just shows how much MORE pathetic than their targets they are if they spend the same amount of time as them to devise these kinds of things!
If these people were truly better than their targets they would be able to annoy and disrupt with minimal effort. A screaming spongebob cube can be annoying but a well-placed remark based on casual social observation can mess with someone’s head for a protracted amount of time!
Either way they’re ultimately feeding the pathetic-ness of their targets simply by paying attention to them. Prock is a prime example of this. SLH paying such attention to griefers like this is another prime example.
btard
Sep 24th, 2007
Please use these responsibly, and by responsibly i mean against prok only.
Greefin Oh
Sep 24th, 2007
You know you can insult them on their scripting skills. It doesn’t matter. As long as there is some sort of result/reaction, there will be lulz.
It’s not about pathetic people taking the game so seriously. I’d say some of the PN take themselves too seriously.
What it’s really about is just stirring up this whole big ass bees nest, and seeing just how much they can continue to annoy the hive. That’s all. I’m sure a few members do hate how people in SL take it as if it’s real life. I’d say I agree to an extent. I just don’t feel like crashing a sim. Too much effort.. not a lot of pay out in the end, except the possibility of getting hardware banned (which is super easy to get around of course). Griefing is basically boring. It’s old hat. W-hat doesn’t even do it anymore. And when was the last time we’ve heard Plastic Duck mentioned anywhere (besides The Herald and this article of course)?
Eventually this whole griefing business will come to an end.. And that end is when Second Life finally falls on it’s stumps, and the Next Big Thing attracts the herd. Even the PN probably thinks that this game is starting to get boring.
Nacon
Sep 24th, 2007
“By publishing scripts and detailed instructions for the assembly of various weapons such as the Autocager, Lulz Turtle Block Bomb, Grid Infector, IM Spoofer, Siezurecube, Money Thief Script, and Mass Client Flooder”
All of those things can be found partly on LSL wiki’s library.
It’s retarded sources.
*hint* that’s why he’s giving up cause he’s not gonna get “Plastic Duck-like status” in the metaverse. He didn’t actually hacked into anything, just wrote bunch of junks in LSL.
Of course, grieffers seem to get bored of it now in SL…. that’s because kids are going back to school. Summer is over.
(Without any fucking doubt, they will be back for next summer.)
loling
Sep 24th, 2007
so much BAWWWWWing in the comments
OMG THEY ANNOY ME ON MY COMPUTAR GAME, ILL CALL THEM PATHETIC ON THE INTERNETS AS REVENGE
^ban^
Sep 24th, 2007
Sure took you guys long enough to figure this out.
Anyways, even more scripts are available my simply getting to the rank of martyr on our forums. Enjoy.
chocolateface
Sep 24th, 2007
correction: mootykips deleted his forum account and ran off in fear of furries sending pizzas to his home address, then came back, tried to disband pn, and was booted out.
mootykips
Sep 24th, 2007
“Apparently software support headaches are universal and even extend those with software designed to be annoying.”
Hah! Isn’t that the truth.
I’m putting up a couple new ones now. Might as well fix the index page too.
^ban^ – c’mon, man, don’t lie. I’ve got every script you have in the forums. If the archive is incomplete, it’s because I forgot to put it up, not because you have a bunch of secret stuff. The martyr program is exactly what I’m doing – training relative newbies to break things. I’m just doing it in a more overt manner. Let’s not fight; we have the same goals.
If I have time, I might publish better documentation. Don’t bother trying to DDoS me either, you ended up using less than 1% of my monthly bandwidth and SL uses all one IP range which I can easily block.
KMeist Hax
Sep 24th, 2007
Yeah a lot of this seems pretty easy to think up.
Hopefully it will provoke Linden Labs into making it harder to grief somehow. At least blacklist obvious griefing scripts!
anonymous
Sep 24th, 2007
FYI: Mudkips Acronym is 16 year old Lance Johnson, the Doogie Howser of Spokane, Washington. He earned his degree at age 16 from Gonzaga University in International Studies, with a minor in Japanese.
He was age banned from SL by Linden Lab. While we can sympathize with Mr. Johnson, given his obviously high intelligence and academic acheivement, he has demonstrated a capacity that he deserved to be on SL. The teen grid/adult grid dichotomy of LL is absurd, and SL would be better served if avatar tags and profiles of minors had different colors so people could easily discern who was a minor and who wasnt, and let the grids comingle, albiet with the PG/Adult sim barrier proposed under the ID Verification system.
However, be that as it may, Mr. Johnsons choice to engage in cyberterrorism and dissemination of griefing technologies demonstrates a distinct lack of maturity in dealing with the real world facts of life that age discrimination does exist.
We also ask where are his parents in all this? Their responsibility to protect the rest of us from their sons depredations is a legal mandate in RL. His father, according to the Spokane Spokesman-Review, is a car salesman, and his mother Angela is a social worker.
There should be RL consequences for griefing, and hopefully SL residents in the Spokane area will read this letter and seek to take legal action in their local community to bring this delinquent savant to justice, to learn that this is NOT a game, any more than life itself is, or at least publicize these facts in the local media, to dispel the local perception that he is some boy wonder.
Nacon
Sep 25th, 2007
“Don’t bother trying to DDoS me either, you ended up using less than 1% of my monthly bandwidth and SL uses all one IP range which I can easily block.”
“…the possibility of getting hardware banned (which is super easy to get around of course).”
sense of irony, isn’t it?
^ban^
Sep 25th, 2007
Maybe you’re right, mootykips, but there are stillt hings you don’t have access to. Which is why I encourage people to join our ranks, for the lulz.
For example, we have our next operation coming up soon, for all of SL to enjoy…
As for the DDoS, I had nothing to do with that. If you really care I’m sure youc an figure out who it was.
Witness X
Sep 25th, 2007
Oh, Lance is so toast.
Maldavius Figtree
Sep 25th, 2007
These fucking furry hating trolls are the cancer!! I’m tired of simply ignoring them!! I am going to FIGHT BACK!! no longer will I Simply block them! this is a war!! one that was forced on us, but one we must fight!! and WIN!! Ignoring them won’t stop them, It’s time to FIGHT FIRE WITH FIRE!! show them how it feels to be constantly harrassed!! they say hate begets hate, but ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!! screw that turn the other cheek crap!! the gloves are off, they want a war, well they have one!! we must stand against them as one!! FURRIES UNITED!! youjustgotowned07, I am with you, together, maybe, just maybe, we can make a difference.
a butt
Sep 25th, 2007
too bad nexis is a furry, along with most of the higher ranking officials in the PN
what linden labs should do is, get better lindens, the ones they have now most of the time cant even speak in fucking sentences (use shorthands) and fuck shit up with a “oh welp i can do this im a linden heh tough shit buddy” (as evident in the recent script shutdown of baku)
just implement a 5 dollars per-account deal, the accounts that are active right now wouldnt be effective, but if you were banned, and wanted to make another account, its 5 bucks. it sounds shitty, but would be totally effective.
anonymous
Sep 25th, 2007
ITT WE DDOS MOOTYKIPS LOL
Duh
Sep 25th, 2007
“Let’s not fight; we have the same goals.”
Not everyone’s goal is to be a total fucking loser.
NobodyImportant
Sep 25th, 2007
I personally don’t see the harm in making the scripts public, Mootykips. I don’t think ^ban^ did, either.
As far as I care, you’re making it more accessible to other people who want to have some lulz (if some of the scripts don’t work, you might want to check their postdate.)
But yeah, join the forums as a Martyr account and you’ll get access to pretty much all finished scripts. Or go to Mooty’s website. Whatever floats your boat.
Just about everything used in the scripts is too important or too troublesome for LL to remove, anyway; so it’s not like you’re exposing a secret or something.
nimrod yaffle
Sep 25th, 2007
Lawl… Spokane… I know someone who lives there too.
FrizzleFry101
Sep 25th, 2007
“As for the DDoS, I had nothing to do with that. If you really care I’m sure youc an figure out who it was.”
I’ll save mooty the trouble, I stuck a vamp script aimed at his little mp3 on his site into a self rep weapon to help gauge how far it was was spreading, and the whole site went down for a few hours
no-one
Sep 25th, 2007
Some see a lot of BAAAAWing in the comments, I see a lot of BAAAAAAWing coming from Lance Mootykips, ^ban^ and all the other PN and /b/tards.
PN, dedicated to providing the furries of SL with enough lulz to last a decade. Thanks guys, you made our day ^.^
PS, I do liek Mudkips. Wanna marry me?
Alyx Stoklitsky
Sep 25th, 2007
“There should be RL consequences for griefing, and hopefully SL residents in the Spokane area will read this letter and seek to take legal action in their local community to bring this delinquent savant to justice, to learn that this is NOT a game, any more than life itself is, or at least publicize these facts in the local media, to dispel the local perception that he is some boy wonder.”
LOL, get a fucking grip.
Do you think the average person is going to give a shit that a 16 year old kid is annoying people in an online game?
Jesus christ.
Mexican_Pirate
Sep 25th, 2007
Second Life is SERIOUS BUSINESS. I want these griefers gone so I can enjoy… wait, what is it you do in Second Life again?
Oh well.
DONTTAZEME
Sep 25th, 2007
To be entirely honest, I do believe that the vast majority of normal people will support anyone who stands up to these sick furries. Annoying people in an online game is nothing compared to wanting to do the hip mambo with foxes :3
Bladentastic
Sep 25th, 2007
Articles like this always make me laugh.
Butthurt levels overwhelming! Watch out! His ass is gonna blow!
Not Sure
Sep 25th, 2007
Not your personal army /b/tards and PN
NOT YOURS
fail
mootykips
Sep 25th, 2007
“City X Internet Crime Department/FBI/insert official police agency here”
“Yes, my identity was stolen and I’ve lost tens of thousands of dollars, my credit has been trashed, and I have debt collectors calling me every five minutes”
“Sorry, ma’am, we can’t process your complaint right now. We’re currently investigating more pressing concerns, like some kid who shot self-replicating cubes at people having virtual sex in animal costumes.”
obi-wan
Sep 26th, 2007
lol stupid and poorly written scripts, i knew u guys were stupid.
JokerOpus
Sep 26th, 2007
Why the hell would you publish links and paths to greifer’s sites and scripts… You know you just brodcasted something for noobs everywhere to pick up and exploid…
GOOD GOING!
…moron
d3adlyc0d3c
Sep 26th, 2007
wow, sounds like the entire sl populace got butthurt. I lol’d. Also we have alot of scripts that weren’t published, either because they are in hidden forms for high ranking members or because the author did not post them because they were super fucking win and he didnt want them to get broken by lindenfags. Oh and mooty if I wanted to DDoS you, you could never even hope to stop me, end/of.
mootykips
Sep 26th, 2007
“Oh and mooty if I wanted to DDoS you, you could never even hope to stop me, end/of.”
DO IT FAGGORT
Witness X
Sep 26th, 2007
“DO IT FAGGORT”
in b4 mooty runs and calls the fbi
ageold story
Sep 27th, 2007
Gee wiz. Another site with retarde scripts any turd can pull out of his ass, just like the grieferwiki page. Oh my, SL is really in danger now.
Save the children, man the lifeboats.
*big fat ass YAWN*
This is getting really old, really fast.
tp
Sep 28th, 2007
When everyone has the power nobody has the power.
This is great and thanks to SLH for having the guts to cover it.
Now you can see open source what goes on in the your metaverse methodology.
You want freedom you have to use social capital now, you log into SL likes it’s a random number generator to sell shit to newbs and you get this stuff.
SoThere
Sep 29th, 2007
LL can’t code a server that its clients can’t bring to its knees and crash. Crashes are Linden Lab’s fault, no one else’s. PNs can be annoying, fine.. I’m no fan of what SL’s turning into with less and less Linden services (first land anyone) and more and more boring commercial islands. Go grief them (oh wait that might lead to actual trouble for you, mm yeah better stick to trivial targets) So yeah! If you want SL to be a commerical place of rules and corporations, drive out those who are colourful, different, and unique. Enjoy your SL when its just you, a bunch of suits, and some noobs.
Griefer Slayer
Oct 1st, 2007
every one knows that all you PN griefers are losers that lack the social skills and the brains to play “the Game” normaly. PN is just a pathetic group of idiots that totaly suck in real life and dont mean shit. Boohoo,im a loser and i dont get any attention in RL so lets fuck up SL.. atleast i will get some (negative) attention there.
ill be in the sandboxes waiting to kick your sorry asses again.
a know anti griefer…
dick burns
Oct 2nd, 2007
codec vs. mooty?
dayumz
^ban^
Oct 2nd, 2007
@ dick burns
codec isn’t PN anymore. He got butthurt after getting b& for a day, then complained along the lines of “I AM ABOVE THE RULES” and got permab&.
also
wiki.patrioticnigras.org
^pan^
Oct 2nd, 2007
Oh yeah.
One more thing.
Walking billboard here light on brain cells.
also
PN wiki won’t last for a month. Enjoy while you can.
Thranos
Aug 4th, 2008
I blame the furries.
Thranos
Aug 4th, 2008
Oh and somebody call a waaaaaaambulance.