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The Wrong Hands is a group originally founded to leak the Justice League Unlimited's BrainiacWiki. The founding members were comprised of Woodbury University members.

Founding

On December 20th 2009, Cayce Urriah a member of the Justice League Unlimited teleported into Soviet Woodbury. He ran into a Woodbury University member named Robble Rubble and the two struck up a conversation about Star Wars. Later in the same conversation Cayce confessed to Robble he was a JLU member and told him about the BrainiacWiki; a database the group uses to track griefers and other enemies. Robble convinced Cayce to send him 3 pages related to Woodbury, but he refused to leak anymore because he was afraid of getting caught. On December 28th 2009, Robble began talking with other Woodbury members about the possibility of infiltrating the Justice League and getting access themselves, but they needed someone that had no affiliations with Woodbury. It was soon relized Woodbury member Mullet Handson had an alt that didn't have ties with the group named Haruhi Thespian.

Posing as a female, Haruhi Thespian began IMing the leader of the JLU Kalel Venkman. He seemed pretty impressed with Haruhi and invited her to their region Justice Island for a tour. While touring the group's watchtower, Haruhi ran into Gawyn Philbin a long time JLU member. Haruhi asked Kalel and Gawyn about the BrainiacWiki and Gawyn replied, "A lot of private info and shit on there that if passed into the wrong hands, could ROYALLY fuck us." the group attempting to infiltrate the JLU now had a name “The Wrong Hands”.

Justice League Unlimited Inflitration

After the tour was finished Haruhi Thespian sent in her application and Kalel Venkman added her to the JLU Applicant group. For the next week, she got to know the other JLU members and patrolled sandboxes with them. She was the perfect applicant, a little too perfect. Kalel became suspicious and started to question her, but she was able to change the conversation to avoid being caught [1]. A week after becoming an applicant Haruhi was made a full JLU recruit and now had access to all of their inworld tools and the BrainiacWiki. Other Wrong Hands members began giving her tools to save as much of the wiki as possible.

On January 10th 2010 while the Justice League was in the middle of their weekly meeting, Haruhi asked if she could say something, but Kalel said it would have to wait until the end. When her time came to speak, Haruhi Thespian stated "We at Woodbury are thankful for the wiki :3" in local chat and a group notice. The Justice League immediately went into shock, banned Haruhi from Justice Island and kicked her out of the group [2].

Aftermath

The Alphaville Herald posted an article a few hours after the incident occurred with download links to the entire wiki.[3] The Herald wrote numerous articles about the content in the BrainiacWiki. Kalel Venkman responded by filling DMCAs against the links and Typepad.com the Herald's host. The content was removed from both sites. Herald editor Pixeleen Mistral then filed a counter-DMCA questioning Venkman's and a few weeks later the information was restored.[4]

Emerald Viewer

In March of 2010, The Wrong Hands began investigating the creators of the Emerald Viewer. In early April of 2010, a TWH member obtained illegal access to modularsystems.sl the Emerald Viewer's main site. They discovered Fractured Crystal created a dataminer that correlated IP addresses and avatars that teleported into Emerald Point or used their REGApi. A censored version was featured in an article on The Alphaville Herald in May of 2010 [5]. TWH member Hazim Gazov later questioned the developers adding Emerald Kakadu library or (emkdu) to the Viewer an openjpeg codec. One of the developers added a line that would broadcast the version of the Emerald Viewer and the file path. Depending on the path of the exe and the username on their computer, it could disclose their real name without them knowing. The data was then decoded by Onyx, a private viewer a handful of Emerald developers possessed. The developers claimed the code was implemented incorrectly and would be fixed.

In early August, LordGregGreg Back resigned from Emerald over the emkdu issue. A few days later Fractured Crystal hid an iframe in the Emerald Viewer's splash screen. When users started up the client they would ping Hazim Gazov's website causing a small DDoS attack. The code remained hidden for over a week and was discovered by an Emerald Beta tester. After the discovery Fractured Crystal was forced to resign from Emerald and was later banned from Second Life. Emerald was then sent orders by Linden Lab which they failed to comply with. The remaining developers were banned and the Emerald Viewer was blocked on September 8th 2010.

Microsoft Buyout

On September 30th 2010 while in a skype call with a Linden, TWH Member Tizzers Foxchase overheard them say Microsoft had placed a bid on the company. Shortly thereafter Tizzers posted on Twitter "A little birdie told me that Microsoft may have silently offered to buy Linden Lab this week." The tweet went viral and within a few hours it ended up on Tech Eye, Gamespot, Toms Hardware, ZDNet and various other sites. Some believed it was an elaborate troll, but 2 days later Microsoft ended up buying another virtual environment Vivaty.

End of Woodbury University

In late 2009, Woodbury University attempted to create a larger campus in Second Life although Linden Lab would only agree to the expansion if member's accounts were pinned to the estate. Jack Linden called Tizzers on March 30th 2010 and threatened that if Woodbury didn't comply with their offer, the group would be banned from Second Life. The same day Tizzers had a discussion with other members in Soviet Woodbury to discuss the fate of the group. It was decided everyone would rather lose everything than have the group comply with Linden Lab's demands and members began preparing for the worst. In the early hours of April 20th 2010, Woodbury University was banned from Second Life. The majority of The Wrong Hands lost their accounts in the banning because they were estate managers in Soviet Woodbury. All sims, mainland parcels and groups owned by Woodbury were reclaimed or deleted, but The Wrong Hands inworld group survived.

After Woodbury University

In May of 2010 TWH members moved to the sim Rancor owned by Atlas Saintlouis. The sim's name was later changed to Red Square and another sim Revolution was added on December 20th 2010. A machinima was posted on January 3rd 2011 under the name Woodbury in Second Life 2011, even though most of the old Woodbury regulars no longer logged on. The new community was comprised of TWH members, residents from welcome areas and other various groups. The estate remained access only until it was opened to the public on April 20th 2011. On July 19th 2011 both sims were taken offline with the owner, regulars and some estate managers banned.

In August of 2011, TWH was active on SLUniverse.com after a blog TheListSL leaked portions of the BrainiacWiki and JLU group notices. Some SLUniverse users later created their own TWH spin-off called The Pink Hands, an Anti-Cyberstalking group. In October of 2011 The Wrong Hands created a new sim named 'Nope' its purpose being a private HQ and sandbox for its members and close friends. However, the sim was shutdown on March 22nd 2012 when the landlord stopped paying the bill.

Departure from Second Life

A new sim was purchased two days later but most of The Wrong Hands members were becoming disinterested in Second Life. Tizzers decided this would be his last sim in the Second Life but he didn't want to go out without a bang. The new sim was named ‘Reddit’ and Tizzers planned to have users from reddit.com join Second Life and create a community in the sim. When Linden Lab realized the sim was run by Tizzers it would be closed down. He hoped redditors would be outraged by their action and the reddit community would up vote a post about the banning to the front page of reddit. Although most redditors weren’t interested in visiting the region and things became tense when infighting caused Robble Rubble to leave the group.

In late August Tizzers saw Linden Lab’s announcement that Second Life was coming to Steam. The sim was renamed to ‘Sanvich’ on September 4th and he hoped he’d be able to pull off his long sought plan. Only three days after the sim was renamed Sarilia Tryce landlord and Tizzers' real life roommate told him he was going to be transferred at work in two months. He would have to move out of town and he’d need the money for the sim to help pay for an apartment. Nobody else in The Wrong Hands wanted to pay for the sim so Tizzers decided to try and get the sim banned from Second Life in less than 2 months.

It was discovered the Patriotic Nigras were trying to make a comeback in Second Life. The PN were the reason Tizzers’ original sim Woodbury University was banned; he thought if they used Sandvich as their base the region would be quickly banned. Once the PN were told about the sim they began building their iconic fort longcat in the sky. Tizzers then posted about the sim on reddit where it became one of the top posts on r/gaming. Second Life users such as Prokofy Neva also saw the post and began blogging about TWH’s involvement in the region. On September 13th Michael Linden was spotted in the PN’s base and it was now only a matter of time before the sim was gone. On September 24th the sim was banned by Linden Lab and a post was made on reddit that was up voted to the front page. On SLUniverse in a thread about the banning, Robble Rubble leaked Tizzers’ plan but Tizzers was just satisfied his post made it on the front page of reddit. Since the banning none of The Wrong Hands members have been active in Second Life, but they can be found in MMOs such as Guild Wars 2.

With the departure of The Wrong Hands from Second Life and Linden Lab's slow response of abuse reports, the Justice League Unlimited’s inworld presence began to diminish [6]. On December 19th 2012, the League pulled the plug on its region Justice Island. Co-founder Kara Timtam stated the decision was made due to the decline in griefing and because the League was unable to afford the region and their website [7].

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