Lockdown hack is now allowed

[WEForums]

Interesting. Nice to know -- I'll make sure no illegal content is mentioned at my forums.

Thanks.

[Zachery]

Originally Posted by Dean C

That's probably the reason why it was made available again. It's against the license agreement for any vBulletin to broadcast or be involved with illegal material on their forums now

Actually it always has had this rule

[Nomb]

I'm not gonna make this bad boy, but, I thought I'd somewhat help. For vB3, checkout /includes/functions_forumdisplay.php

Specifically checkout the function, "fetch_dot_threads_array":

PHP Code:

// ###################### Start getDotThreads #######################
// --> Queries a list of given ids and generates an array of ids that the user has posted in
function fetch_dot_threads_array($ids)
{
    global $DB_site, $bbuserinfo, $vboptions;

    if ($ids AND $vboptions['showdots'] AND $bbuserinfo['userid'])
    {
        $dotthreads = array();
        $mythreads = $DB_site->query("
            SELECT COUNT(*) AS count, threadid, MAX(dateline) AS lastpost
            FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "post AS post
            LEFT JOIN " . TABLE_PREFIX . "deletionlog AS deletionlog ON (post.postid = deletionlog.primaryid AND type = 'post')
            WHERE post.userid = $bbuserinfo[userid] AND
            post.visible = 1 AND
            post.threadid IN (0$ids) AND
            deletionlog.primaryid IS NULL
            GROUP BY threadid
        ");

        while ($mythread = $DB_site->fetch_array($mythreads))
        {
            $dotthreads["$mythread[threadid]"]['count'] = $mythread['count'];
            $dotthreads["$mythread[threadid]"]['lastpost'] = vbdate($vboptions['dateformat'], $mythread['lastpost'], true);
        }

        return $dotthreads;
    }

    return false;

} 


This function returns an array of thread ids the user posted in. Anyway, messing with that somewhat is a big start.

[Nomb]

Was my post deleted? If so, why?

[Xenon]

you were posting the fetch_dottet threads function of vb. so i assumed you just hit reply on the wrong thread, as we are not talking about dottet threads here, do we?

[Nomb]

Well, maybe if you would have read my reply and not just deleted it.

Think about it, what does fetch_dot_threads_array do? Returns an array of a user's dot threads, or, “threads a user has posted in”. I made that very clear in my post.

I was just trying to help out with a suggestion for those that might attempt the hack because someone stated earlier that there is no standard vb functionality to grab threads you’ve posted in, well, there is, hence my example.

[rookie7]

Originally Posted by Dean C

That's probably the reason why it was made available again. It's against the license agreement for any vBulletin to broadcast or be involved with illegal material on their forums now

See...this is what I don't get. Why would vB care if their software is being used by people who have inappropriate contents in their sites? Doesn't that make vB, in some way, responsible for the contents of their customers, and by doing that, vB is bringing someone else's problems to itself. :ermm:

Also, I agree with AlexanderT. I don't understand the reason behind the change of the rule. The protection system has been used here at vb.org for ages, and only a few months ago was the lock down hack allowed to be released here. So...what happened between when the protection system was used and a few months ago? Why wouldn't the rule changed as soon as the protection system was put in place here at vb.org?

I'm not trying to start anything. It's just that some things are puzzling me. That's all.

[Dean C]

There may be some technical loop hole that would make vBulletin responsible in the case of a courtcase, if its being used to broadcast illegal material. Remember, when napster first came out a few years ago, the never shared files, only its users. Yet they got sued by the australian government.

Also another possibly explanation is so vBulletin can distance itself from this kind of illegal activity and bad reputation. Open-source, GPL software can be used for any purpose including warez so perhaps this was done to help the profile of vb

Btw thanks for the heads up on that function Nomb

[Xenon]

@Nomb: i've read you post several times, and still don't get the use of it in THIS thread, but as you say it wasn't a mistake to post it here, i've restored it

[kermit_criminal]

what are warez sites? im lost here