Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies| Author: | brickerking  | | Posted: | Mar 14, 2024 23:24 | | Subject: | Re: Introducing One-Time Pin | | Viewed: | 93 times | | Topic: | Administrative | |
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| In Administrative, 1001bricks writes:
| | In Administrative, CE_Anastasia writes:
| | This means that sellers will have this feature enabled
automatically
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When???
| | We highly encourage sellers to keep OTP enabled for added account protection.
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I highly encourage BrickLink to find another way to give PA or important information
than posting in a Forum read by 1% users and at 22:43 EDT or 3:43 Paris time
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IT: Hey guys? Should we send out an email to let users know we're going to
enable OTP for everyone?
Manager: Nah, just post it in the forum.
IT: What forum?
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| Author: | brickerking | | Posted: | Mar 14, 2024 02:33 | | Subject: | Re: BEWARE! HACK TRIALS!! | | Viewed: | 38 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, UTLF writes:
| | They should just hire a bunch of Italians to deal with the spaghetti code
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Or at least some Boston Pizza servers!
After all, pizza is the solution to everything, right? Maybe add a little mustard
if that will help - dijon ketchups too. 
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| Author: | brickerking | | Posted: | Mar 14, 2024 02:27 | | Subject: | Re: Is this a legit email? | | Viewed: | 39 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, Admin_Russell writes:
| | In Help, adam.r writes:
| | I have received an email asking me to sign up to be a BrickLink Research Member.
Whilst I have no problem with being BrickLink's guinea pig however given
the recent warnings about phishing emails targeting BrickLink users, I figured
that it would be best to check if this is a legitimate email before signing up.
The Sign up! link goes to an Office 365 form that asks questions including Name,
Email address and BrickLink username.
Could someone from BrickLink please advise if BrickLink has indeed been sending
out such emails, or is someone else up to no good?
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This is a legitimate email from our BrickLink team. Please sign up if you are
interested.
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Thanks!
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| Author: | brickerking | | Posted: | Mar 13, 2024 23:24 | | Subject: | Re: BEWARE! HACK TRIALS!! | | Viewed: | 69 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, Saitobricks.ca writes:
| | In General, UTLF writes:
| | | | Those supporting the efforts of the Bricklink Team are not shills nor are we accepting of bot spam.
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There are a few people that have blown the bot spam off as nothing and tell us
to ignore it, as if it's acceptable that a marketplace owned by a billion-dollar
company can have advertisements for CBD gummies & tons of other crap spammed
daily
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Heres a simple answer, you can't post a link if you have no feedback.
No feedback, no links. People asking for help don't need to post links to
get help.
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Can't, can't, can't. Two words that means no hard work will ever
be done: spaghetti code
(and all the IT guys now nod their heads and say, yup, yup yup)
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| Author: | brickerking | | Posted: | Mar 13, 2024 12:37 | | Subject: | Re: BEWARE! HACK TRIALS!! | | Viewed: | 43 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, DanialR writes:
| | If not done properly can make the site
less secure than it is today.
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I vote they do it properly. In my experience, corporate IT guys create their
own limitations because they speak tech and their bosses don't. Just get
'er done!
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| Author: | brickerking | | Posted: | Mar 13, 2024 12:30 | | Subject: | Re: Is this a legit email? | | Viewed: | 54 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, SylvainLS writes:
| | I think this e-mail is legit but…
In Help, wildchicken13 writes:
| | […]
Mine's from blservice@bricklink.com, so I'm pretty sure it can
be trusted unless BrickLink's email servers have been hacked.
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Sorry to say but that can be forged. Scammers generally don’t bother to (especially
as they don’t want you to answer the e-mail and make the official site aware
of their shenanigans).
The DKIM-Signature is more secure but it needs to be verified: you can’t do it
‘manually.’ That depends on your mail provider.
Mails that don’t pass the verification don’t make it to your mailbox.
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You can also hover your cursor (don't click) over the link/button to see
the exact URL where it leads.
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Well, that doesn’t tell much more as BL is using mailchimp and trackers and whatnot.
If you hover over the link/button, you see something like
(https://)bricklink.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=(digits and letters)&id=(ditto)&e=(ditto)
Rather cryptic.
Now, if you look at the text-only version of the e-mail, the link is (https://)forms.office.com/e/(ID)
So you at least know you’re being redirected to an MSOffice form… but that doesn’t
tell you anything more on who created it and that doesn’t prevent you from entering
the name of your luggage or the code for your first pet.
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Can anyone actually confirm for the OP if this email is legit?
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| Author: | brickerking | | Posted: | Mar 12, 2024 23:29 | | Subject: | Re: BEWARE! HACK TRIALS!! | | Viewed: | 40 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, Nubs_Select writes:
| | | | | | Yes, BrickLink could implement more advanced technical solutions to prevent spam
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Then why aren't they doing it?
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Why would the spend potentially thousands of dollars (or more) so that the 20-50
of us who use the forums don’t see a couple spam posts a day? The real question
is why would they. If you hide canceled posts or just ignore them it in no way
affects the usage
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I really don't care about forum spam. But I do care that the OP is concerned
about security and the reply to that was making the point that if BL can't
keep out spam from the form, how can they keep our accounts secure? These are
valid concerns, and shouldn't just be dismissed by BL apologists who assume
the cost is too high for security. It's a really simple point that should
be supported by everyone, not belittled.
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| Author: | brickerking | | Posted: | Mar 12, 2024 23:17 | | Subject: | Re: BEWARE! HACK TRIALS!! | | Viewed: | 37 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, wildchicken13 writes:
| | In General, brickerking writes:
| | This is apologizing for BL. Why not hold their feet to the fire, when it's
our community they are responsible for.
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How do I hold BrickLink's feet to the fire? I am just a chicken, thousands
of miles away.
| | Then why aren't they doing it?
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As I said, it's not necessarily worth it to prevent a relatively small amount
of relatively harmless spam, especially when the developers have other priorities.
That being said, if the spam does get out of control, then it might justify some
sort of technical solution, but everyone's tolerance for spam is different.
I don't mind a bit of salt.
How am I to know? I'm not a programmer and I don't work for BrickLink.
I don't know what happens in Irvine. All I can do is guess.
Communication is nice, but I'd rather the developers focus on getting stuff
done than on sharing their work with a public that doesn't really understand
software development. At least they bother to update it with past updates.
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We should in fact demand more accountability and communication from BL and we
shouldn't stop until they do. That's how things start to get better.
If we just pretend everything will work out in the end, it never will, and we'll
just have to put up with more and more problems. This forum is the best public
way to hold BL's feet to the fire. So instead of going "chicken",
demand better from the company that runs the community we are all responsible
for.
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| Author: | brickerking | | Posted: | Mar 12, 2024 22:56 | | Subject: | Re: BEWARE! HACK TRIALS!! | | Viewed: | 51 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, wildchicken13 writes:
| | Yes, BrickLink could implement more advanced technical solutions to prevent spam
accounts from being created in the first place, but it's not necessarily
worth the investment just to prevent a few relatively harmless spam posts every
night. I'm sure the BrickLink developers are busy dealing with more important
bugs and vulnerabilities.
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This is apologizing for BL. Why not hold their feet to the fire, when it's
our community they are responsible for.
| | Yes, BrickLink could implement more advanced technical solutions to prevent spam
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Then why aren't they doing it?
| | I'm sure the BrickLink developers are busy dealing with more important
bugs and vulnerabilities.
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Are they? How sure are you? Is it on their roadmap? https://www.bricklink.com/help.asp?helpID=2547&q=roadmap
Oh, wait, there is nothing on their roadmap???
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| Author: | brickerking | | Posted: | Mar 12, 2024 21:49 | | Subject: | Re: BEWARE! HACK TRIALS!! | | Viewed: | 51 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, DanialR writes:
| | In General, UTLF writes:
| | | | There are so many apologizers for BL on the forum it seems like no one is listening, but it's the only forum we have.
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Some people shill so hard you'd think they're being paid to do it, it's
insane
It's okay to criticize something you love, and I'm sure there are others
that feel similar but stay quiet as to avoid conflict - and to be honest, I still
walk on eggshells and bite my tongue to avoid risking a ban on here
I've never seen people so complacent and accepting of bot spam in my life
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(Thumper Mode: OFF)
Those supporting the efforts of the Bricklink Team are not shills nor are we
accepting of bot spam.
Many of us have extensive experience in the tech industry and understand the
challenges going on behind the scenes.
We know how frustrating it can be when a few noisy people try to denigrate the
efforts when they have no clue about the scope of the problem or the efforts
to find a permanent resolution.
(Thumper Mode: ON)
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Please, talk down to us more, it’s really convincing.
You just keep pretending that BL operates solely the way you think it does and
for your best interest. The rest of us will stay curious and not pretend.
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