No No No, first off, the TPUC forum is a highly controversial site which is spreading information virally which helps people wake up to the rapidly spreading corporate fascism that is gripping our world. I had nothing but the best of intentions in my dealings with them because I had nothing but admiration for the courage of those involved in the project.
I started to find, as did many others, that there was a problem within the TPUC forum, where certain members had been promoted above others as denoted by having a green username instead of the standard blue. These green users were able to moderate, and unfortunately the power went to some of their heads. I can readily call upon several other members of TPUC whom I am still in contact with to support these facts.
As a result of a conversation with one of the mods by the name of Markie B, I mentioned that the site security was lax because they had port 22 & 3306 open to the world. I supplied with documents on how to secure their server properly and they completely ignored it.
Now bear in mind the sensitive nature of the information that they are talking about, they are forming the start of what they call the LAWFUL REBELLION, and if it really gets going they are bound to make enemies in high places.
Wanting to make sure their virtual "castle" was as strong as it could be, and that the private details of the users were safe I talked the higher level of admins, and even approached John at one of his talks about the issue and about how vulnerable they were to potential cyber attacks and DDos's.
Instead of taking my professional advice on the matter, the tin-foil hatters got paranoid and decided that I was threatening them in some way, and that I was talking bullshit and they didn't need to worry about it.
I decided that they really needed to be taught a lesson about internet server security and why it is so important, especially because the loss of the TPUC site and it's contents would be a major blow to the LAWFUL REBELLION movement.
So I ran a short DDoS on them, using a laptop on a dodgy middle eastern crap broadband connection (I was in Abu Dhabi at the time). Just to demonstrate to them what can happen.
They then finally took my advice, secured the server with the information I provided and then used the help that I gave them to lock me out.
Whilst I do infact still have access to the TPUC site, I don't tend to go there anymore, as the forum is typically full of the same tin-foil hat crap delivered daily and I'm not interested in that stuff anymore.
I do however still stand by the fact that the LAWFUL REBELLION is one of the most important political things happening in the UK right now, and I really want to support it, but not the TPUC which as far as I am concerned is just a club house for John and his sycophants. Albeit a clubhouse which is as I noted spreading important information virally, and now thanks to me is secure and reliable.
If you don't believe me about all of the above, then you can go over to thefreemanleague.com and ask just about anyone there why half of their regular users migrated to thefreemanleague in a mass exodus away from TPUC.
TPUC has real serious problems with hypocrisy and mods who think their gods. But it's not my problem anymore and as I said I don't go there anymore despite the fact that I still have complete access if I want to.
