<story><title>Death of a Troll</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jan/28/death-of-a-troll</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lucidrains</author><text>Haha I&amp;#x27;m the owner of the site. Surprised it made it to hacker news. There&amp;#x27;s a whole world out there with countless stories unravelling that the naked eye can&amp;#x27;t see. I&amp;#x27;m very happy to have had a special glimpse into one of these worlds.</text></comment>
<story><title>Death of a Troll</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jan/28/death-of-a-troll</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>danso</author><text>A bit pedantic...but I couldn&amp;#x27;t help but think, WTF is going on with the Epic Mafia&amp;#x27;s website? The article describes the troll as effortlessly hacking the site, including locking mods out of their own forum, and sending them emails with links that unban friends upon clicking. The smallest site operator can throw up a phpBB board without such issues...It sounds like Epic Mafia is running on a custom written app that is full of SQL injection vulnerabilities. I hope they&amp;#x27;ve gotten them fixed up before trolls external to the community prey on them.&lt;p&gt;This is not to say that the troll is just some script kiddie. It sounds like he has some serious social engineering chops, besides programming experience. I&amp;#x27;m guessing this is the fake newspaper website he made to post his own obit? &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.sctribune.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.sctribune.com&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>