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Aug 29 2008

The stealing MSN passwords site, now offline!

Category: Other stuffAuthor: Alexander, @ August 29, 2008, 5:47 pm
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Within less then 24 hours after “De Telegraaf” journalist gave me a call and he then published the article in the newspaper, which was based on my previous “stealing MSN passwords” article, the site: ‘messchecker.nl’ is from this morning fortunately offline!

Which makes me think: why suddenly so fast, only a day after the story has been published in national newspaper (De Telegraaf - article) - and not at the moment my original story was published on this site, as I let Microsoft know the very same day, thus a week ago?

2008-08-28 de telegraafAnd would this case become as serious as it actually was, also if there were no newspapers?

Sensation is the fuel we all ride on. And on the roads we ought to be seen either when we ride in a very big - or otherwise very special car. In this case, the big car made it work I guess.

Anywayz, this ugly site is now offline and these guys won’t bug me again any time soon, and if they now face the court, they most probably won’t bug me - nor anyone else, ever again.

Big Girl says: “I hope they now won’t retaliate!”
I say: “Fbeeepck them! I don’t care a shbeeeept! If they now wanna commit another crime, then they should go ahead. That’s what criminals do.”

… and that’s what makes the difference in between us and them.

And if we are to be afraid of such a people, then we better stop living now,… as only more of them we’ll see coming in the future. Especially on Internet.

Yet, the fact that some people - as you can read it on reactions page (under Telegraaf’s web-version of the article yesterday, see link above) care more about “whether am I a professional Webdesigner - OR - a Make-up Artist!?”, then about the article CONTENT itself …is very strange to me. Some guy over there even questioned my credibility based on the very same logic (quote: “A make-up Artist whose profession is Webdesign? A whole story is fake. Check better what you write about”) … which is just funny - and even an idiot idea to me!

For those people I feel sorry I took any action at all.

Perhaps they deserve to deal with such a criminals and their creepy websites after all. Perhaps they deserve their passwords be stolen!
Or to put it in the words of my old philosophy teacher: “Human stupidity has no boundaries!”

And that’s exactly why this whole “stealing msn passwords” thing was possible in the first place, if you ask me!

Right here you can read experiences of people who used messchecker, so you can se it was real after all - and many people were just fooled! And on this page: you can find the list of weird MSN related sites.

Having said that, there are few more questions I have to ask:

What’s wrong with being both; the Make-up artist, as well as Webdesigner?
Or even to have one more profession?
What’s wrong with going to school/doing the courses, and educate yourself your entire life?
What’s wrong with not being stupid?

Would I otherwise be more credible if I was stupid?

Again something to think about.
Not too much though. ;-)

All seeing eye, take 2

Another coincidence or not, Yvonne sent me today another picture of her. From the same shoot we had a month ago together with Michael. This time it’s not her “All seeing eye” only, but her whole portrait.

yvonne miracleart, all seeing eye 2
“Model Yvonne - All seeing eye, take 2″.
Photo by Michael, make-up by me, the Photoshop artwork by Yvonne.

 

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2 Responses to “The stealing MSN passwords site, now offline!”

  1. Michael says:

    Way to go, Alexander! Another criminal site eliminated. Tried to place a reaction to the Telegraaf article with the question why they didn’t put the link to the source of their story in it, but it was rejected. They wrote: “Beste lezer,

    U heeft gereageerd op een artikel op telegraaf.nl. Ons moderatingteam heeft uw reactie beoordeeld en geoordeeld dat uw reactie niet voldoet aan onze huisregels. Uw reactie is niet vrijgegeven voor publicatie op telegraaf.nl. Klik hier om naar het artikel te gaan waarop u heeft gereageerd en probeer het eventueel nogmaals.

    Met vriendelijke groeten,

    Het moderatingteam van telegraaf.nl”

    Well, non Dutch speaking persons can translate this online in English can’t they? Telegraaf rejected my reaction because I mentioned your website address. There´s a saying in Dutch `Ere wie ere toekomt´, ´Honor those who deserve the honor´. This newspaper don´t think that way I reckon. But we know better :-). I´m glad your action was successful. Stupid or not haha!

    Best Regards,
    Michael.

  2. Alexander says:

    Hi @Michael,

    It’s indeed very important that the mentioned website is now “offline”. Either it’s Telegraaf’s journalist or me, whom MSN users should thank to… is far less important.

    It’s such a shame that you were unable to link to my source article from Telegraaf’s reaction page. They could give the links “external nofollow” attribute, which shouldn’t damage their high pagerank, if it’s about pagerank they care about at all.

    On the other hand, if they don’t care about the source, I say FU*K them!…. Bad newspaper.

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