Sabotage of c4f October-December 2020, OL Cycle

[Robyklebt]

Old topic, comes back up because the main suspect is back, he took prolonged break from the end of December 20 to August 23. Only realized he's riding again a few days ago, thought was still in the buying period, so high time for this thread now. And no, don't think it's too old to be dealt with, no expiration date on sabotage. And it's not an appeal either, first time that this case is brought up.

What happened:

End of October somebody started putting races online. Not the calendar assistant, which at the time was me.

Here from the November 2020 thread

viewtopic.php?f=13&t=7815#p108271

Overall 5 races seems to have been put on, reconstructed from my annoyingly long PMs to Luques.

On the 15th of November somebody, presumably the same person, started deleting races that were already online. Scroll down further for more info in that thread.

Or a quote

Mr. X or Bug X struck again.

3 races deleted, 16th (tomorrow) 21st and ?? A TT late in the month.

Race tomorrow is online again. So those that were already inscribed: Inscribe again.

Entirely possible that other stuff changed as well. We have a funny bug or a funny saboteur around.

More happened after that, not sure how much in November, sent everything to Luques by PN, unfortunately my "sent messages" only go back to Dec 1st 2020, everything sent previously was automatically deleted, so can't provide the races that were deleted earlier anymore.

Further information to be found in the December 20 thread.

viewtopic.php?f=13&t=7860
From my PMs to Luques:

Dec 1 these races were deleted

1 day race on the 6th
Nigeria tour from the 7th
christmas pavé
christmas island
Nazareth Betlehem
Tour de Herne
Christmas Tour
Catania Etna (31.12) gone but not La Saint Sylv on the same day.

Dec 3

Tour de Herne back online, not by me.

Dec 10:

This morning (Japan time) when I checked all was ok.

Had 27 races with 113 editions online before (I've taken to writing this shit down so that I know when stuff is added, deleted...) Now it says 22 and 89

Races from the 16th to the 20st and the end of the month tour.

Dec 15:
Race for the 17th gone

Dec 16:
Race for the 17th gone again.

Dec 18
Races for Dec 18 gone, same day deletion, put on again, worked (which wasn't guaranteed)

Dec 24:
Morning race deleted while the race was ongoing. Restarted. Deleted while the race was on much later, 14h race then. REstarted a third time, finished.

End of the sabotage. Luques changed the address of the deletion tool (resulting in much more work for me as well). Luques found the IP addresses used for the 2 deletions. 46.xxx and 109.xxx,

I think everybody agrees that deleting races is bad, that deleting races that are being ridden is worse and unacceptable.

The big question is and was: Who did it?

a) Somebody with access to the tools
b) Somebody with no access but found the address of the 3 necessary tools (not sure if the put tours online tool was actually used, possibly only 2)

a seems much more likely.

Who had access:
The bosses: Buhmann, lesossies and Luques. VERY unlikely suspects.
Other people with access: Big Donkey, Pokemon, OLCycle for sure. Hunsrück and Aux possibly for the uploading tool, pretty sure not for the deletion tool. Possibly others for the uploading tool, unlikely more people knew about the deletion tool.

From these 6 (8) from the start OL is the biggest suspect. The 3 bosses are eliminated immediately, Big Donkey, I eliminated myself from the pool of suspects very fast too (but I'm open to hear interesting arguments on why it was me of course....), Pokemon when asked said that he did delete one of the races that were put on buggily by the saboteur, but that he didn't add or delete anything else (except later in December when at times I wasn't available to put stuff online, despite rumours to the contrary, I'm not actually online 24h a day). That leaves OL. Hunsrück, if he even had access to the deletion tool was mostly off riding few races a month only. And really no reason. Aux had left the game over a year earlier. Admittedly holding a huge grudge towards Luques.


Evidence:
-Motive: A grudge vs me, the guy that got the most extra work from the sabotage. Aux had that too, but more vs Luques, but gone and doubtful access. Pokemon of course isn't my friend either, but was helpful at the time and convincingly said that he had nothing to do with it when asked.
-Opportunity: As I said, 3 guys definitely had the necessary links, Big Donkey, Pokemon, OL.
-Timing: When the first batch of races were put on, he was in the same race as me. I mentioned in the race that I might not be fully there, uploading the November calendar. Since OL and I notoriously didn't get along well, and in that period were in another low, since we had more races together than usual. Anyway, he was online then for sure. Right after I finished uploading and changing 2 races appeared. Trying to "sneak them in"?
Once I saw the races online checked who was online in the forum. OL was, no other suspect.
- His IP on the day of the first upload when I checked for onliners in the forum.: 46.xxx A VPN from Holland. Interesting, but maybe purely by coincidental that one of the IPs used for deletion was a 46.xxx too.
- Other IP used according to Luques 109.xxx An IP that OL had used (but don't have to click through all his posts to see when) in the forum.
-After the 24th, when Luques made the deletions impossible by changin the old link and had spotted the IPs, OL didn't ride a single race until August 2023 anymore. He stopped immediately.

For me that's enough evidence to say that OLCycle was the saboteur of October-December 2020.

Up to the FPC to decide if it's enough to take action.
Possibly forgot some stuff, it's been a while, might do some more research in the coming days.

[Gipfelstuermer]

FPC is reviewing the case.

After a first read, do you think you can potentially provide more detailed evidence? For example, exact timing (date&time) of manipulations might help and complete IP's (with a source) would be necessary, too, if you would like FPC to perform any checks on that.

[Gipfelstuermer]

FPC Decision: No ban, no fine.

The FPC performed additional checks on the IP used in the manipulation and the IP's used by various teams over the past years, but could not find any evidence.

The FPC also notes that the new calendar tool is much safer and cannot be manipulated in the way it happened in 2020.