Sheep had his nick stolen

Summary:

he is not in trouble

Sheep had his nick stolen

Tuomey Tombstone 26 Aug 2013 00:37

Semi-regular chat user Sheep had his nick stolen
Logs of PMs between myself and the real sheep

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23:56:04: <Tombstone> Ok
23:56:12: <Tombstone> So I guess someone else managed to get your nick
23:56:27: <Sheepy> Okay, so I'm the real sheep, aka (USER IDENTIFIED SELF HERE) Somehow synIRC decided that I can't use that nick so I made Sheepy instead.
23:56:41: <Sheepy> And I am not pleased with that one
23:56:50: <Tombstone> Did you leave the nick inactive for a long time or put the password somewhere or what?
23:57:34: <Sheepy> I wouldn't put the password anywhere, since it is mine for a lot of things, and I was on here like 6 hours ago with it, so….
23:57:40: <Tombstone> If he's still using your password somehow try /ns ghost sheep password
23:58:14: <Tombstone> Then I guess you could reclaim the nick and change the password
23:58:23: <Tombstone> gotta work fast
23:58:39: <Sheepy> on it
23:59:17: <Sheepy> nope still not letting me change to it
23:59:24: <Sheepy> says enter new nick each time
23:59:45: <Tombstone> /msg NickServ SET PASSWORD [newpassword] any help?
23:59:49: <Tombstone> gdi
23:59:57: <Tombstone> he must have rejoined
00:00:18: <Tombstone> Yeah, he's back online
00:00:19: <Tombstone> Ok
00:00:23: <Tombstone> Here's what you do
00:00:36: <Tombstone> you get everything typed out on seperate lines in notepad or whatever
00:00:51: <Tombstone> then copypaste like a motherfucker to get in there before he can rejoin

Sheep then managed to reclaim his nick

I forgot to record fake sheep's channels or IP before we got rid of him, however he was in three that I could see including one the name of which contained "uber", another that seemed to be four random letters and the last one's name contained "digi"
Not the most helpful, I know
Real Sheep is synIRC-FD066978.hsd1.ma.comcast.net according to /whois

/whowas sheep returned three lines, one of which appears to be the real sheep

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01:34 »> sheep was ten.tsacmoc.am.1dsh.879660DF-CRInys|tibbiM#ten.tsacmoc.am.1dsh.879660DF-CRInys|tibbiM http://www.mibbit.com
01:34 »> sheep was PI.0DE0BFCB.10EAAD6C.6B80BFD2|tibbiM#PI.0DE0BFCB.10EAAD6C.6B80BFD2|tibbiM http://www.mibbit.com
01:34 »> sheep was PI.0DE0BFCB.10EAAD6C.6B80BFD2|tibbiM#PI.0DE0BFCB.10EAAD6C.6B80BFD2|tibbiM http://www.mibbit.com

This could be trolls reconning or just some dick who really wanted to be known as sheep

Also note that real Sheep only uses #site19
Fake Sheep was NOT in #site19 until I invited him, assuming it was the real Sheep.

A user suggested getting fake Sheep k-lined, thoughts?

Last edited on 26 Aug 2013 00:54 by Tuomey Tombstone Show more

Re: Sheep had his nick stolen

Aelanna 26 Aug 2013 01:05

Semi-regular chat user Sheep had his nick stolen

By this do you mean that someone actually did something to SynIRC in such a way that the nick was stolen, or was the "real" Sheep offline for over 30 days and the nick was freed up automatically, then used by someone else? In the former case the real Sheep needs to notify SynIRC staff, and in the latter case there's absolutely nothing that can be done about it. If you don't log on every few weeks, then your registration gets deleted.

Re: Sheep had his nick stolen

Tuomey Tombstone 26 Aug 2013 01:13

No
He was online earlier in the day
Tried to return, ran into fake Sheep
Contacted me on Tumblr
I then invited fake Sheep into the channel, thinking it was real Sheep
Real Sheep joined as Sheepy and it is logged above from there

EDIT: Also I was definitely talking to him in 19 intermittently over the past couple of weeks

Last edited on 26 Aug 2013 01:14 by Tuomey Tombstone Show more

Re: Sheep had his nick stolen

thedeadlymoose 26 Aug 2013 02:29

This is… fairly confusing.

A user suggested getting fake Sheep k-lined, thoughts?

My thoughts are, uh, let's not do anything like this until we actually know what the hell is going on. I don't see any logs of anything this alternate Sheep has done.

The fact is, "Sheep" is a pretty generic nickname. And Sheep, while cool, isn't exactly a major user, and not an op. What would anyone gain by stealing his nick to 'recon'?

EDIT: On re-reading, I'm even more confused. I share Aelanna's question. Are you sure Sheep didn't let his nick lapse? In other words, can you provide logs of Sheep having been in #site19 (IE with an identified nick) in the past month? Are there logs of any of this? Because if Sheep's nick did get stolen (password guessed, or whatever, who knows) then at minimum you're going to need logs to give the IRC overlords.

EDITx2 & 3: I did check myself. Sheep was in 19 a number of times, including today and yesterday (meaning they had to have an identified nick).

Today:

Logs

[2013-08-25 20:13:07] <Sheep> so my friend wants a very brief summary of the Containment Breach game
[2013-08-25 20:13:12] <Sheep> How do I describe it
[2013-08-25 20:13:23] <salvagebar> sheep jump scares
[2013-08-25 20:13:39] <Athena_Grey> 21?
[2013-08-25 20:13:39] <Sheep> I was meaning story salvage
[2013-08-25 20:13:39] |<-- Azzleflux has left irc.synirc.net (Ping timeout: 240 seconds)
[2013-08-25 20:13:55] <salvagebar> there's no story
[2013-08-25 20:14:05] <Sheep> only jump scares?
[2013-08-25 20:14:20] <Athena_Grey> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCP:_Containment_Breach
[2013-08-25 20:14:42] <Athena_Grey> there's a Wikipedia page. Didn't know that
[2013-08-25 20:14:49] <salvagebar> you are a Dclass - site 19 goes ZOMG BREACH - you try to escape while HRRRRAAAAAA JUMP SCARES
[2013-08-25 20:15:11] <salvagebar> that is your story Sheep
[2013-08-25 20:15:15] <Athena_Grey> http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/SCPContainmentBreach
[2013-08-25 20:15:44] -->| Azzleflux (esuoh.ruoy.nopu|xop#esuoh.ruoy.nopu|xop) has joined #site19
[2013-08-25 20:15:55] <Athena_Grey> so yeah salvagebar, I'm 21. ish
[2013-08-25 20:16:06] <salvagebar> oh too young
[2013-08-25 20:16:29] <salvagebar> Sheep my summary is the best one you'll find
[2013-08-25 20:17:03] <Athena_Grey> yay still haven't escaped 106 yet, am I?
[2013-08-25 20:17:28] <Tox> Athena_Grey: Yeah….it's a sore subject,
[2013-08-25 20:17:34] <salvagebar> I am 106, Athena_Grey
[2013-08-25 20:17:34] * Tox sigh
[2013-08-25 20:17:52] <Athena_Grey> …
[2013-08-25 20:17:57] <Athena_Grey> /damn/
[2013-08-25 20:17:58] <salvagebar> Tox why is 106 a sore subject?
[2013-08-25 20:18:02] <Shoe> I thought you were in your late 20's early 30's, SalvageBar
[2013-08-25 20:18:08] <Shoe> …My guess was about 26.
[2013-08-25 20:18:14] <Tox> no
[2013-08-25 20:18:15] <salvagebar> no, older
[2013-08-25 20:18:20] <Tox> salvagebar: (11:14:34 PM) Athena_Grey: there's a Wikipedia page. Didn't know that
[2013-08-25 20:18:23] <Shoe> 29?
[2013-08-25 20:18:30] <salvagebar> 38
[2013-08-25 20:18:36] <Shoe> Ahh.
[2013-08-25 20:18:38] <Tox> that there's a wikipedia page for CB
[2013-08-25 20:18:46] <Tox> but not for /us/
[2013-08-25 20:19:36] <salvagebar> Tox you could not write one?
[2013-08-25 20:19:36] <Athena_Grey> …
[2013-08-25 20:19:40] <Athena_Grey> hahahahahaha
[2013-08-25 20:19:48] <Tox> salvagebar: Oh I could
[2013-08-25 20:19:52] <Tox> it'd get deleted again
[2013-08-25 20:19:54] |<-- Azzleflux has left irc.synirc.net (Ping timeout: 246 seconds)
[2013-08-25 20:20:03] <salvagebar> by who
[2013-08-25 20:20:06] <Tox> admins
[2013-08-25 20:20:10] <Athena_Grey> we still got Tvtropes, man
[2013-08-25 20:20:15] <Athena_Grey> we still got Tvtropes
[2013-08-25 20:20:26] <Tox> because apparently we don't "meet notability requrements"
[2013-08-25 20:20:31] * Tox hisses and fluffs up
[2013-08-25 20:20:36] -->| Azzleflux (esuoh.ruoy.nopu|xop#esuoh.ruoy.nopu|xop) has joined #site19
[2013-08-25 20:20:46] <salvagebar> what reason did they give, toxguy
[2013-08-25 20:20:53] <salvagebar> notability?
[2013-08-25 20:20:57] <Tox> eeyup
[2013-08-25 20:21:12] <Shoe> …Warehouse 13 is directly ripping us off! How is that not notable?
[2013-08-25 20:21:24] <Shoe> …Kind of.
[2013-08-25 20:21:25] <Shoe> sort of.
[2013-08-25 20:21:26] <Athena_Grey> ok wiki logic fail right there
[2013-08-25 20:21:29] <salvagebar> yeah that is a personal judgment on the part of a couple of admins
[2013-08-25 20:21:40] <Shoe> Actually, we're more like Warehouse 13/The X-files
[2013-08-25 20:21:40] <Athena_Grey> our fan spinoff game got a page, we don't
[2013-08-25 20:21:56] <Athena_Grey> whatabout Torchwood?
[2013-08-25 20:22:12] <salvagebar> and shoe the idea of a warehouse full of weird is very old
[2013-08-25 20:22:27] <Tox> see
[2013-08-25 20:22:29] <Tox> SEE
[2013-08-25 20:22:30] <Athena_Grey> Raiders of the Lost Ark, final scene
[2013-08-25 20:22:33] <Tox> see why I hiss and fluff up
[2013-08-25 20:22:39] <Slate> http://images.4chan.org/v/src/1377485612312.png
[2013-08-25 20:22:40] <Shoe> Well, we have an adorable ball of uber-friendly orange snot.
[2013-08-25 20:22:46] * Slate pulls out hair
[2013-08-25 20:22:47] <Slate> AAAAAAAAAAAAA
[2013-08-25 20:22:54] <Shoe> …Actually, 999 is more like Earwax
[2013-08-25 20:23:22] <Sheep> slate…wuit

Yesterday (8/25):

Logs

[2013-08-24 18:49:02] -->| Sheep (ten.tsacmoc.am.1dsh.879660DF-CRInys|tibbiM#ten.tsacmoc.am.1dsh.879660DF-CRInys|tibbiM) has joined #site19
[2013-08-24 18:49:12] <Sheep> evening everyone
[2013-08-24 18:49:17] <RustyCollector> hi
[2013-08-24 18:49:25] <Sheep> hey rusty
[2013-08-24 18:49:35] <Dmatix> Another tale fallen to the curse of the dormant wiki. Tis a cruel killer.
[2013-08-24 18:49:41] <RustyCollector> :D
[2013-08-24 18:49:56] =-= RustyCollector is now known as BoneCollector
[2013-08-24 18:50:22] <Sheep> dun dun dun
[2013-08-24 18:50:34] <Sheep> oh look, ghostchibi is here.
[2013-08-24 18:50:39] * Sheep sits on ghostchibi
[2013-08-24 18:51:10] <Sheep> i seem to have dislocated my thumb today
[…]
[2013-08-24 21:32:02] |<— Sheep has left irc.synirc.net (Quit: http://www.mibbit.com ajax IRC Client)

and on 8/19:

Logs

[2013-08-19 20:39:59] —>| Sheep (ten.tsacmoc.am.1dsh.879660DF-CRInys|tibbiM#ten.tsacmoc.am.1dsh.879660DF-CRInys|tibbiM) has joined #site19
[2013-08-19 20:40:17] <Roget> .tale ginger
[2013-08-19 20:40:18] <Nala> Roget: http://www.scp-wiki.net/ginger - Ginger by Roget (rating: +7, 2 revisions)
[2013-08-19 20:40:21] <Roget> .tale coil
[2013-08-19 20:40:22] <Nala> Roget: http://www.scp-wiki.net/how-tightly-the-coils-squeeze - How Tightly The Coils Squeeze by Roget (rating: +4, 3 revisions)
[2013-08-19 20:40:22] <Sheep> ello all
[2013-08-19 20:40:28] <Aelanna> salvagebar: I'm surprised the audio guy didn't get tossed by the umpire :P
[2013-08-19 20:40:34] <Aelanna> I've seen audio guys get tossed for less
[2013-08-19 20:40:41] <salvagebar> I would have seriously considered tossing him
[2013-08-19 20:40:46] <Roget> all the new tales are >+10
[2013-08-19 20:40:47] <ProcyonLotor> .lc
[2013-08-19 20:40:48] <Nala> ProcyonLotor: The last 3 pages created were: 1. SCP-1493 (Noodle Golem) created by Bluedanoob (1 h 55 m 37 s ago), 2. How Tightly The Coils Squeeze created by Roget (3 h 5 m 50 s ago) and 3. Bronze created by DrBerggren (4 h 37 m 56 s ago).
[2013-08-19 20:40:51] <Aelanna> Earlier this year, in a minor league game
[2013-08-19 20:40:54] <Redrock> Hi
[2013-08-19 20:41:00] <ProcyonLotor> .sm 1
[2013-08-19 20:41:01] <Nala> ProcyonLotor: Noodle Golem (rating: -6, 14 revisions) - http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1493
[2013-08-19 20:41:04] <Roget> hullo redrock
[2013-08-19 20:41:10] <Aelanna> The organist got tossed by the umpire for playing "three blind mice" while a coach was out at the plate, arguing a bad call.
[2013-08-19 20:41:11] <ProcyonLotor> howdy there
[2013-08-19 20:41:28] <salvagebar> I mean, it was the beginning of a song, but still
[2013-08-19 20:42:09] <salvagebar> Hmmm… yeah that goes right up to the line of "commentary" or "arguing"
[2013-08-19 20:42:44] <Aelanna> the game today was a massacre by the way
[2013-08-19 20:43:01] <Aelanna> 16-5 Rangers
[2013-08-19 20:43:09] <Sheep> i see you have a ghost infestation

and 8/18:

[2013-08-18 19:25:32] —>| Sheep (ten.tsacmoc.am.1dsh.879660DF-CRInys|tibbiM#ten.tsacmoc.am.1dsh.879660DF-CRInys|tibbiM) has joined #site19

and 8/17

[2013-08-17 20:39:34] —>| Sheep (ten.tsacmoc.am.1dsh.879660DF-CRInys|tibbiM#ten.tsacmoc.am.1dsh.879660DF-CRInys|tibbiM) has joined #site19
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[2013-08-17 22:03:06] <Sheep> cain, tumblr conquers all

and 8/16

Logs

[2013-08-16 20:15:47] -->| Sheep (ten.tsacmoc.am.1dsh.879660DF-CRInys|tibbiM#ten.tsacmoc.am.1dsh.879660DF-CRInys|tibbiM) has joined #site19
[2013-08-16 20:16:03] <Sheep> hello everyone
[2013-08-16 20:16:04] <salvagebar> Voct I am twitter
[2013-08-16 20:16:24] <salvagebar> guess my twitname
[2013-08-16 20:16:58] |<-- Denamger has left irc.synirc.net (Quit: ChatZilla 0.9.90.1 [Firefox 22.0/20130618035212])
[2013-08-16 20:17:59] * nyehcat goes to watch redlettermedia
[2013-08-16 20:19:02] <salvagebar> TroyL can I call you 'Troyguy'?
[2013-08-16 20:19:34] <TroyL> You may.
[2013-08-16 20:22:32] <thedeadlymoose> XD
[2013-08-16 20:23:06] -->| Athena_Grey (~PI.61665167.0BBD8E04.FC2F37C4|alliztahc#PI.61665167.0BBD8E04.FC2F37C4|alliztahc) has joined #site19
[2013-08-16 20:23:35] -->| Blaroth (~ku.oc.bbmeerht.9EB90EA-CRInys|criordna#ku.oc.bbmeerht.9EB90EA-CRInys|criordna) has joined #site19
[2013-08-16 20:23:36] <Gara> Hey
[2013-08-16 20:23:43] <Gara> Hi Blar!
[2013-08-16 20:23:59] |<-- BlaSleeps has left irc.synirc.net (Ping timeout: 187 seconds)
[2013-08-16 20:24:01] <Blaroth> Hi- phone crashed.
[2013-08-16 20:24:05] |<-- TheRaven has left irc.synirc.net (Quit: Sail away where no ball and chain can keep us from the roarin' waves, together undivided but forever we'll be free!)
[2013-08-16 20:24:05] <Blaroth> ….oh
[2013-08-16 20:24:13] <Magnus> Moose, I found a bit of cover art for an album that reminded me of you.
[2013-08-16 20:24:43] <Sheep> hmmm, everyone game back when the LCS match ended it seems….
[….]
[2013-08-16 21:19:48] <Sheep> i spy with my sheepish eye, a ghostchibi
[2013-08-16 21:19:48] <Anborough> |:
[2013-08-16 21:20:20] <salvagebar> ghostchibi is too busy making her cosplay costume
[2013-08-16 21:20:33] <salvagebar> too busy to talk to us Sheep
[2013-08-16 21:20:49] <Sheep> yeah no surprise there
[2013-08-16 21:20:51] <ghostchibi> hello Shpee
[2013-08-16 21:20:54] <ghostchibi> pay no mind to salvagebar
[2013-08-16 21:20:56] <Sheep> that or dealing with an inbox full of anon love
[2013-08-16 21:21:06] <ghostchibi> although your timing could be better my family's dragging me out to sushi tonight
[2013-08-16 21:21:12] <Sheep> awwe
[2013-08-16 21:21:20] <Sheep> you better enjoy that then
[2013-08-16 21:21:34] <Sheep> i'm probably gonna pop off in about an hour to sleep though
[2013-08-16 21:21:59] <salvagebar> ghostchibi what is ウグッ,
[2013-08-16 21:22:02] <Sheep> which means bug me on tumblr or skype or something anyways :3c
[2013-08-16 21:22:35] <ghostchibi> that looks like a sound effect salvagebar
[2013-08-16 21:22:39] <ghostchibi> Sheep: okay :)

On 8/08 ghostchibi mentions that Sheep doesn't have his laptop (I don't know any other context). Besides that, those are all of my logged Sheep appearances for the month of August.

Last edited on 26 Aug 2013 06:41 by thedeadlymoose Show more

Re: Sheep had his nick stolen

Aelanna 26 Aug 2013 16:14

I dug a little into SynIRC's documentation for their implementation of NickServ. As it turns out, if you use a registered name, it considers you registered even if you haven't authenticated unless you set secure nick on with /ns set secure on. I have notified Sheep of this, and done the same for my nicks.

Re: Sheep had his nick stolen

thedeadlymoose 26 Aug 2013 21:15

Well that's… surprising. Thank you, Aelanna.

Re: Sheep had his nick stolen

RJB_R 26 Aug 2013 21:59

I've secured my nicks. We might actually want to add this to the chat guide, so that the general userbase of the chat knows to do it.

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Re: Sheep had his nick stolen

FlameShirt 27 Aug 2013 04:01

Sounds like a good idea. Something as simple as inserting a sentence in the Connecting section would alert new users.

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Re: Sheep had his nick stolen

RJB_R 27 Aug 2013 11:43

Added to the chat guide.

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