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Mix 'n' Mojo... hacked?

AwesomepantsmanAwesomepantsman
edited May 2010 in General Chat
Can someone tell me what is wrong with this picture?
mojohacked.png
I have a sneaking suspicion that this is just a cruel April Fools joke.
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  • ScrawfflerScrawffler
    edited March 2010
    Me too.

    The background music on the page gives it away.

    But I have good memories of that music.
  • AwesomepantsmanAwesomepantsman
    edited March 2010
    I wonder if all the virus leadup was just staged by Mix 'n' Mojo staff?
  • IrishmileIrishmile
    edited March 2010
    April fools?
  • OzzieMonkeyOzzieMonkey
    edited April 2010
    Irishmile wrote: »
    April fools?

    Yeah, it is. I'm just wondering how long this is going to last.
  • jp-30jp-30
    edited April 2010
    Until Mojo '10 is unveiled.


    Sometime in 2012.
  • JoopJoop
    edited April 2010
    Just look at the site now.
    I'm afraid it hás been hacked...
  • ScrawfflerScrawffler
    edited April 2010
    *goes to mixnmojo*

    ... yeah, that's a new one.

    There are a few things weird about this though, which make me think that it might still be innocent.

    First off, it's weird that the site went crazy on April Fools Day, of all days. But on the other hand, maybe that's exactly what the hacker planned, to lower our suspicions. I'll admit it, if that was their plan they managed to trick me!

    Whoever did this seems like they could be a Monkey Island fan (the background music yesterday, the skull and crossbones today). And what reason would a Monkey Island fan have for hacking a site dedicated to adventure games and LucasArts classics?

    But then, what reason would the staff have to randomly do this? Unless of course they are completely remaking the whole site.

    Yeah... I'm being no help at all. I have no idea.
  • AwesomepantsmanAwesomepantsman
    edited April 2010
    Hint: There's invisible text at the bottom that's only visible when highlighted.
    by lunatic_at_cpan.org by lunatic_at_cpan.org by lunatic_at_cpan.org by lunatic_at_cpan.org by lunatic_at_cpan.org by lunatic_at_cpan.org by lunatic_a

    EDIT: And here's a picture for the history books.
    mojoascii.gif
  • ShaggEShaggE
    edited April 2010
    StonkBad wrote: »
    Hint: There's invisible text at the bottom that's only visible when highlighted.

    "Lunatic" is an ASCII artist. Either the Mojo staff or the hacker must have pulled the pic from a random site.
  • AwesomepantsmanAwesomepantsman
    edited April 2010
    Perhaps they used Lunatic's picture to ASCII art converter.
  • JakeJake Telltale Alumni
    edited April 2010
    Haha it's clearly an April Fools-related thing.

    The hacking earlier this year was real, I think. The site was actually attacked and had malicious code injected.


    The Brazilian flags and cookchase.mid this time imply that it's a joke. The whole Mojo/LucasArts Fan Network server was notoriously overtaken and erased by some script kiddie from Brazil five years ago, and that midi file used to blare at full volume on Mojo if you tried to go to an unauthorized directory.

    Don't know why it's up past april 1st though.
  • IrishmileIrishmile
    edited April 2010
    Most obvious scenario is as follows
    maybe because its Friday and one of the guys in the office thought casual friday was the perfect time to bust out his daisy dukes and the rest of the team is sick in the bathroom..
  • RadogolRadogol
    edited April 2010
    Jake wrote: »
    Don't know why it's up past april 1st though.

    It's not just that it's up - the site only changed to the ASCII skull on April 2.
  • ScrawfflerScrawffler
    edited April 2010
    Jake wrote: »
    The whole Mojo/LucasArts Fan Network server was notoriously overtaken and erased by some script kiddie from Brazil five years ago, and that midi file used to blare at full volume on Mojo if you tried to go to an unauthorized directory.
    I wasn't aware of either of these, though I did think that midi was blatantly a joke yesterday. Maybe the site owners haven't got round to putting the site back yet.

    The "powered by mojo" minisites are still up and running (like mojoart, lucasfic, and all the game guides).
  • MusicallyInspiredMusicallyInspired
    edited April 2010
    Don't be fooled. It's an April fool alright. It's not uncommon nowadays for April fool jokes to carry on a day or two beyond April fool's day to throw everyone off.
  • zmallyzmally
    edited April 2010
    http://www.mixnmojo.com/index2.php
  • AwesomepantsmanAwesomepantsman
    edited April 2010
    Now it really looks like Mojo's dead. I know that index page still works, but none of the articles are there.
  • OCKiOCKi
    edited April 2010
    R.I.P Mojo!
    I will miss all the excellent "in retrospective" articles.. Is all the hard work you put behind it truly lost at sea?? :/
    Damn you, Brazilian pirate hackers!!!!!!

    But remember.. If Guybrush can rise from the dead - you can too!
  • V_BenV_Ben
    edited April 2010
    It's not dead... It can't be!
  • Bloody EugeneBloody Eugene
    edited April 2010
    Hey, guys!
    DEAD?????
    did you mean....DEAD?!?!??!??

    Don't they have backups of the site?
    Cannot they change the host site?
    Come on, i think that there must be a solution...

    If they need money we can organize a fund for donation....

    Also to you, Telltale guys, Mix n mojo was the N.1 to sustain you, providing constant news about your product.... let's do something about it!

    I miss the site so much!
  • puzzleboxpuzzlebox Telltale Alumni
    edited April 2010
    mixnmojo wrote:
    Frankly, it would take a miracle for us to come back from the dead.

    Frankly, I wouldn't be surprised to see Mojo back on Easter Sunday.
  • ShwooShwoo
    edited April 2010
    It's coming back on Sunday. I'd bet money on it. Not a lot of money, though.
    the code of the site, the bricks the pages are constructed from, are too frail and aged to withstand another attack.
    I don't think code works that way.
    As you read this we are all in the basement of The International House of Mojo (yes, it's a real house), holding hands and chanting, keeping the hackers at bay just long enough to fling this message out to the depths of the internet.
    Obviously not accurate even if it was hacked, but it seems a bit dramatic to put it like that.
    Frankly, it would take a miracle for us to come back from the dead.
    Suspiciously blatant Easter reference there.
  • tmsmyth4tmsmyth4
    edited April 2010
    no way is mojo dead! easter sunday is a good call. the internet wouldn't be the same without mojo, I hope we dont see an overhaul similar to scummbar-the Scummbar isn't what it used to be
  • Giant TopeGiant Tope
    edited April 2010
    That and the whole: IT IS FINISHED thing.

    I really hope they do come back all shiny and new on Easter. I'd be sad if it were actually dead.
  • puzzleboxpuzzlebox Telltale Alumni
    edited April 2010
    Shwoo wrote: »
    Suspiciously blatant Easter reference there.

    Never mind the part where they said the hackers "crucified" them. :P
    mixnmojo wrote:
    The DB had literally exploded and it took our FTP with it, along with our features, our news, our lives.

    Well that's a blatant lie.

    It's ok, Mojo! We found your database!

    I'm totally calling shenanigans.
  • KromsKroms
    edited April 2010
    puzzlebox wrote: »

    Well that's a blatant lie.

    It's ok, Mojo! We found your database!

    I'm totally calling shenanigans.

    Code monkeys working behind the scenes! Slavery because they like it!

    *whips the monkeys*
  • JoopJoop
    edited April 2010
    This was my most visited website for the last few years... :'(
    I'm crushed... I just hope they can recover and if not, that the hosted sites remain untouched...
  • ShaggEShaggE
    edited April 2010
    The explanation message killed the joke, methinks. Now it's all kinds of obvious that they're going for an extended prank.
  • wefeelgroovewefeelgroove
    edited April 2010
    I wonder if they did this because of all the other weird problems they've been having lately (the virus on the front page a couple weeks ago, for example).
  • S@breS@bre
    edited April 2010
    I've had no internet access for the last few days, including over April Fools, so when I got back online today and checked up mixnmojo, I was certainly quite shocked to see the message up there. Glad to see that it likely isn't down though, given the database is still there. That's a "we're dead and can barely keep this page up" page that's far too well designed graphically for what they're claiming anyway.

    Anyone else think the Brazilian flag with a skull on it that SkonkBad posted makes it look like the Sproutella logo?
    840977-sproutella_thumb.jpg
  • mateo360mateo360
    edited April 2010
    I also would like to point out that they are using the ToMI underworld graveyard which Guybrush came back from...
  • priznaprizna
    edited April 2010
    Where are the flags people keep on metioning, all I can find is the "Its Finished" thing.
  • FealiksFealiks
    edited April 2010
    ShaggE wrote: »
    The explanation message killed the joke, methinks. Now it's all kinds of obvious that they're going for an extended prank.

    Nah, it didn't kill the joke. It made it better by going for the whole 4th-wall-destroying-ridiculousness thing.
  • unicornfoalunicornfoal
    edited April 2010
    prizna wrote: »
    Where are the flags people keep on metioning, all I can find is the "Its Finished" thing.

    It's not there anymore, but over Good Friday there was an ASCII art picture of the Brazilian flag with a skull and crossbones on it on the main page, instead of the "It is Finished" message that's there now. :)
  • GozzoManGozzoMan
    edited April 2010
    Ah! Ah! Ah! They're pure genius! :D:D:D
  • Guybrush_ThreepwoodGuybrush_Threepwood
    edited April 2010
    Still not coming back... NOW I'M WORRIED
  • IrishmileIrishmile
    edited April 2010
    its still really early here
  • Guybrush_ThreepwoodGuybrush_Threepwood
    edited April 2010
    Isn't most of the Mojo staff English? Here is 15:25... Darn I hope you're right!
  • VainamoinenVainamoinen Moderator
    edited April 2010
    I really hope it's a joke that's gone too far... but they got me trembling! :(
  • FealiksFealiks
    edited April 2010
    Mojo's finally back!!!
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