hi all. While the internet offers its own anonymity and someone can change their IP address and login name the audio gaming community is still a small one.
I think that the well established audio game makers who have evidence about specific gamers should publish it in order to warn other people. We could even consider a global black list for these gamers. The fact that we are a small community would mean that even if someone were to change their username or internet provider their real name might still be exposed through real life interaction with other users. So this might discourage many of the attacks by not making it worth the effort. Those people might think they are cool, but maybe they will reconsider when they cannot play any online game, buy /download any games or interact in the audio gaming community without the label of a sneaky cheat. On 3/24/13, Jeremy Kaldobsky <[email protected]> wrote: > I haven't contacted any providers lately because it hasn't been helping. > The last few times I bothered to contact anyone the information traced back > to small businesses (coffee shop type things) or schools, and they just > ignored me. I doubt they care to lose any business over some random guy > reporting abuse. > > The most annoying attacks have been DOS attacks and packet injection to try > and break the server or log in as other users. The DOS attacks were fairly > small scale by most standards, but that doesn't mean it didn't cause huge > lag and log in issues. The one a few days ago that hit my LAN looked to me > like it was meant to exploit the remote sign in feature in Windows. They > probably assumed I was using that to check the server, which is a fair > assumption, but was wrong. > > As I said I don't worry about the standard background internet garbage, > since that just comes with the territory, but I think it's a big deal with > people from the community itself are doing these things. > > I think the reason you haven't seen much of this in Alter Aeon is because > they're still preoccupied with Swamp. Many of the hackers are the same > people I've dealt with for a year now. Each time they are thwarted they > clearly spend time learning new things because their next set of efforts > shows improvement. So if after a year of learning and trying new things we > have blind audio games players who are willing to target the personal > property of game developers for fun, then I think we have a problem. Odds > are, they won't wake up with the ability to see tomorrow, so they aren't > going to just go away. If they have this destructive mind set and only the > audio games community to prey on, then other developers are going to have to > deal with them at some point as well. > >> From: Dennis Towne <[email protected]> > >> Jeremy, >> >> That's pretty weird. I haven't seen a machine based >> attack worth >> talking about from my player base in nearly fifteen years, >> and in that >> case I just called up his provider and got his accounts >> revoked. I'm >> sure there have been other hack attempts, but I'd have to >> waste time >> rooting through the logs to see how often they happen. >> >> What kinds of techniques are they using? Perhaps the >> difference is >> dependent on UDP usage instead of TCP connections. >> >> >> Dennis Towne >> >> Alter Aeon MUD >> http://www.alteraeon.com > > > --- > Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to > [email protected]. > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, > please send E-mail to [email protected]. > --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected].
