That boomin guy is the latest (caught) alt of MariusTi aka steamproject aka tberty aka Dorkslayz etc etc who uses an army of dozens of alts to fake vouch or spam bump his threads of torrent invites (and he's probably had around a 100 banned). He either has a massive stockpile of them or buys them from account sellers but I'm more inclined to believe that he has just farmed/created them himself as there's a lot that were just used to make one or two posts to bump/vouch for his thread then discarded, though some of the older ones recently came back to life and started selling the torrent invites when a lot of his other accounts got found out and banned. This behaviour with him has been going on for years with him and not just on this forum either as he's been banned from numerous forums and never learns.
So you basically just agree that hacking (old) newbie accounts do have benefits for scammer's, and illustrating those benefits to scammer's.
Steamproject ran his thread nearly 2 years on bct. What exactly was he supposed to "learn" from that?
If he "just farmed/created them himself" he must have been around since July 31, 2010, 07:44:15 PM
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=657 Weather or not Steamproject farmed those accounts himself or hacked them or bought them is a different topic, probably known alts thread.
The fact remains that hundred's of thousands of accounts are "hacked" by someone.
bct members are left in the dark over the scale of this, while mods say there is nothing that can be done, admin haven't even responded.
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I have no idea how many accounts have been compromised but I don't think it's as bad as you're claiming. I suppose certain accounts could be locked but people weep like widows when their accounts are auto locked as a precautionary measure when someone tries to reset the password via the security question and they cry even more when they have to wait for it to be restored. Also, if the account hasn't posted an address or they can no longer sign a message from one then they're screwed that way and they would then blame the forum for that so we're damned if we do and damned if we don't.
I should respond here too.
You have no idea how many accounts have been compromised, Yet somehow "auto conclude" i'm wrong?
You compare "auto locked" accounts with "systemically hacked" account's, but they are not hacked in the same way. (afaik)
Security question accounts are by default "locked out" till staff action, while systemically (password) hacked accounts are by default "allowed in" until staff action?
You go on about those "auto locked" members weeping like widows, when many have clear proof but still have to wait for months for any action to be taken, then use the damnation of your (staff/admin) inaction's on restoring those few "auto locked" accounts as reason why you can't do anything about 100,000's of completely differently identifiable "systemically (password) hacked" accounts. Correct?