worried about forum security

I don't know how it came up, but to be able to post edits or change the post you would have had to be logged in as the original poster or enter their username and password before posting the changes. It shouldn't be a problem.

Scary thought. Someone could post something derogatory or whatnot. However, you should need a password, so hopefully noone can do that or worse.

Can't explain how that happened, but internet security is kind of a myth. Determined hackers could cause a lot of woes if they choose to.

Regards, Rick

Thank seems odd as thes pages are generated on the fly with scripts, etc... Most likely i would think you saw a test page inside a public folder on FSM web server. I doubt that you would have been able to edit the topic properly, as your logon id is stored as a cookie on your computer. Of course, I could be wrong, I guess the FSM webmaster have to answer this one.

Ah wahtever, we should just trust to our fellow man to let us have some quality model discussion in peace...

Unfortuanetly with computers, the maxium is Trust No One, anybody with the knowledge and know how can hack into most systems or plant spy wear or virus's, I assume Finescale does what it can to protect itself and its sites. I do not think that people on this forum are evil or untrustworthy, but it only takes one person(usually on the outside) to ruin it

Keep in mind Modelwarships.com was hacked into a couple of weeks ago. Caused a lot of problems. I'm guessing it could happen here too.

QUOTE: Originally posted by Tankmaster7 The other day, I was doing a search on google for some model related subject, I forget which, but with the results came up this forum. Not just this forum, but inside the posting screen from ANOTHER member. That's right, I (or anyone.)could have edited or destroyed his post at will! Needless to say, I didn't. But what's with that?!

I don't know why Google shows that page instead of the regular page, but what you saw was that Google followed the "Quote" link, which would take it to what looks like the same as editing, but it's not. When you're not logged in, the quote link still appears and you could post as long as you included your username and password with the post.

To be honest, search engines generate results from scripts, and I'm not really certain that you would have been able to edit the text properly, if at all. But then again, weirder things have been known to happen..

QUOTE: Unfortuanetly with computers, the maxium is Trust No One, anybody with the knowledge and know how can hack into most systems or plant spy wear or virus's

Ah, the cry of the paranoid and uninformed. Granted, most Windows based systems aren't the most secure things in the world, but with a LITTLE know-how, and some basic steps, you can greatly reduce your chances of any of these things happening to you.