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It's 101% secure and safe.



                
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AZWification said:

It's 101% secure and safe.

That's a relief. Its good to know all my hard earned pointsss are safe. 



    

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JoeTheBro said:
I did that stuff as a going away party. I'm done with vgchartz and really don't care about posting or viewing threads here anymore.

However conegamer brought this thread to my attention, so I'm giving a bit of clarification then leaving for good (again).




I have never hacked in to the vgchartz server. Everything I've done has either been by changing data values when posting or putting html code in my posts.

With the first one, all that allowed me to do was put in numbers that vgchartz didn't give as a predefined option. So for example with the posts per page profile option, this method allows people to put in anything they want. It works exactly the same way as posting in a locked thread. Nothing dangerous or bad about it, just potentially annoying. ioi has fixed a few of these in the past, for example ghost threads, since they are just simple oversights with the server code.

The second one allows a lot more to be done, but it only does things while viewing that specific post. For example the very well known [ b ] bug that makes everything after it bold. It only affects pages showing that post, not the whole site. The only things I did with this one were fun and amusing (or at least intended as such), but they are an EXTREME security hole. If someone had malicious intentions, they could do pretty much anything to people viewing their posts.

Now no need to be afraid or worried. First of all the chances of someone even wanting to attack vgchartz and having the capability to do it are slim. Secondly, the reason some things have not been displaying properly for a while is because ioi is working to remove this exploit. VGChartz is a secure and safe website.

Hey, Joe.  You still got one brotha left.




VGchartz is as safe as it's Playstation numbers are accurate :D