ONE Counterintelligence Coup
Fitisin
The last two days have provided ONE with the initiative and a clear advantage before a shot has been fired in the coming US/Hungarian War.
In the past few weeks, Hungary as you know has been carving a path through northern France, while Bulgaria has wiped Turkey. Poland continues to solidify its hold on Northern Europe, while our Allies Croatia and Greece have traded regions with their ONE neighbors.
We've all been awaiting the moment when Hungary would run out of French provinces to conquer that did not border eUS territories in Spain and France. With Poland beating us to the NE proposal during our aborted invasion of northern Europe there was no way that our government would let that happen again.
Well.....
Hungary attacked Brittany, France - conquering the region and gaining a border with two eUS states. At that moment, the eUS government would have been ready to make a Natural Enemy proposal against Hungary.
Sometime yesterday, a person posing as eUS President Artela on IRC convinced Congressman Ghost Killah to make a Natural Enemy proposal against...FRANCE.
Sneaky Hungarian Spies with Sneaky Spy Glasses
Voting that proposal down took 24 hours. The real President Artela immediately proposed Hungary as our Natural Enemy.
That Proposal has 17 hours (as of publication) to go. Hungary's NE proposal will be enacted in 9 hours at 4-5 AM eRep time (which is also happily for me Pacific Standard Time)
This means that Hungary can choose the time of attack for optimal ONE battle damage while we Americans are sleeping it off (as we should be).
So...they got us again, and it isn't a good start to this coming war.
Arm yourselves America, it's gonna be a long couple months.
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Edit - Post Script
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Blaming Ghost Killah (who has resigned from Congress) is a non-starter. Presidential or Executive Directives via IRC should be confirmed by a password sent via PM in the game. Props to Relorian for pointing out this simple failsafe via shout.
Comments
FITISIN FOR POTUS
Current thinking of eUS War Planners can summed up as: "D'oh!"
Bia you torturer! 😛
ehehehehehehehe
wocka wocka
You really expected these clowns to do anything right....
Dumb Emma 4 PotUS...!
Sorry, Fitisn....
lets get this party started
This would never happen with President General Cartman
😁 you got that right. We would have an MPP with Serbia by now if Ajay was running the show.
Also...this is such a freaking idiotic mistake and after all the FN mistakes previously that it seems almost as if they did it on purpose...how flipping easy would it have been to login, send a PM and wait for answer...sadly GK may have duped by a Pfeifferist agent as easily as it was a ONE agent...
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The Hun will be a piece of cake! Have you seen how weak there MUs are: http://www.erepublik.com/en/main/group-list/members/73/140#1_140
o7
still a joke that he got tricked...
That isn't the point...the American Congress and our British President are currently stinking the place up and making America look like idiots....
FITISIN FOR POTUS !!!
ONE world tour Phase 3 coming up shortly
Not brilliant!!!
See you on battlefield guys 🙂
LOL... ONE world tour eh? Kinda like Serbia getting wiped? Hungary licking boot? Spain surrendering and signing a peace accord? Yeah, Cycles happen. Hungary is nothing in the long term because they cant hold anything long term.
And Yes, A password or phrase should be implemented that changes frequently. Or you know, checking the /ident and verifying it. Or a PM in game or sense most people have a presidents cell number, a Text message. Something for security...
"Sometime yesterday, a person posing as eUS President Artela on IRC convinced Congressman Ghost Killah to make a Natural Enemy proposal against...FRANCE."
Thats bloody hilarious
Or common sense, why would we want to NE France? That in and of itself should have raised red flags.
'ONE world tour Phase 3 coming up shortly'
Don't forget the 8 months worth of abysmal defeat ONE just suffered courtesy of EDEN/TERRA, GameChanger. Has any alliance ever experienced such a drubbing? Answer: No.
@Lord Dark Helmet: Exactly! WHY OH WHY would anyone NE France -- a huge TERRA ally -- because of a chat on irc!?
Finally a real reason to censure someone.
Apparently the vhost had only one letter different. I don't remember what Artela's host is, but if you have say an I in it or an L, they're going to look the same on some clients. Can you blame him if the rest of you didn't have a better system in place already? l I
Upon doing /ns info
[01:51] 28-29NickServ28- Artela is Artela
[01:51] 28-29NickServ28- Last seen address: ~artela@soisoisoisoisoi.bump
[01:51] 28-29NickServ28- Time registere😛 Apr 25 03:15:49 2010 MDT
[01:51] 28-29NickServ28- Last seen time: May 21 23:49:06 2012 MDT
Not blaming Artela for the vhost, but... yeah....
Amun Nefer
Day 1,644, 22:48
"Can you blame him if the rest of you didn't have a better system in place already?"
Yep, I sure can! A damn n00b knows to send an in game PM to verify who they are talking to. Stupid rookie mistake. I like Ghost Killah and am reasonably sure that he didn't do this intentionally, but shit! Major facepalm time.
This is not the first time someone has been tricked on IRC, so as far as I am concerned this was a totally inexcusable mistake which gave Hungary initiative; Artela and the USWP have screwed the pooch time and time again...then hey have the audacity to blame America 'because we do't get the joke and can't follow orders', WTF?
It's f!@#$%g hilarious. Also sad,
U kidding me?
OK whats done is done . Now lets get this war won .And kick some HUN ass.
long live eusa
don't they have secure IRC channels that would require a specific registered nick? can someone please explain? Why even go through the trouble of having someone look at a vhost? which anyone can set to anything.
One does not simply get convinced to call NE on a MPP ally.
One does not simply get convinced to call NE on a MPP ally.
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I wanna join the eUS military...can someone help me?