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Hack Name

Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2011 10:26 pm
by 1FGR1NightGhost
this guy keeps coming to my clans servers with a hack name (im not gonna say the name cus hes on this website) and it takes up 6 lines (1 line for every letter, + joined) this then causes the server to crash.

example:
b
o
b
b
y
joined


How does he do this and how would i stop him?

Re: Hack Name

Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2011 11:18 pm
by sim-al2
1FGR1NightGhost wrote:how would i stop him?
As far as I've learned from people who have experience with this problem, it's not possible to stop it.

Off-topic:
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I don't understand why a few individuals in the community feel the need to get on a public server and start hacking. There's no central scoring system or even a way to save your scores by default, and I doubt most people care anyway, so all these hackers are doing is griefing and ruining the fun for others. :?

Re: Hack Name

Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2011 11:50 pm
by Twilight_Warrior
sim-al2 wrote:griefing and ruining the fun for others. :?
^There's your answer.
Some sick, twisted people think that's fun.

Re: Hack Name

Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2011 7:58 am
by Teancum
Ban him by IP.

Re: Hack Name

Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2011 11:35 am
by 1FGR1NightGhost
Its a PC server.


And hes not "realy" hacking, he just causing the server to crash, and hes doing it for quasi-political reasons (game related)

Re: Hack Name

Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2011 12:05 pm
by Snork
Raza?

Re: Hack Name

Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2011 12:25 pm
by Teancum
If this is someone here you can feel free to bring this up with site administrators. We expect those who represent Gametoast not to be, well, jerks.

Re: Hack Name

Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2011 1:18 pm
by Xavious
Why not set your server up with a password that only your clan knows?

Re: Hack Name

Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2011 3:46 pm
by Noobasaurus
Xavious wrote:Why not set your server up with a password that only your clan knows?
Maybe 1FGR1NightGhost doesn't feel like giving everyone a password. Who knows?
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Offtopic: I like your new avatar, Xavious! 8)

Re: Hack Name

Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2011 5:15 pm
by 1FGR1NightGhost
Teancum wrote:If this is someone here you can feel free to bring this up with site administrators. We expect those who represent Gametoast not to be, well, jerks.
Its not neccessarily that he is a representative of gametoast (idk if he is in the clan) And its not on gametoast its SWBF2. And i dont wanna piss him of even more than I/we already have


And we try a pw. But nobody has x fire, and only 2/3 join the website and only 1/3 actualy read and post on the website so that never realy works....

Re: Hack Name

Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2011 11:38 pm
by Teancum
Clan or not if this person is an active Gametoast member we expect them to be a courteous player as well. Nobody who purposely crashes a SWBF1/2 server will have any access whatsoever to our site.

Let this be a direct warning to whoever is doing this. If you want to keep your access here you need to stop this nonsense. Now.

Re: Hack Name

Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2011 11:10 am
by 1FGR1NightGhost
Maybe that worked..

Cus now hes not doing it as *****, he now just does it as "=FGR= Is Gay" (<taking up 3 lines), it still crashes our servers, but not anyone elses???

Re: Hack Name

Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2011 12:54 pm
by THEWULFMAN
1FGR1NightGhost wrote:Maybe that worked..

I doubt it. If he is a member of GT, and he saw that, I think he would have said something about GT itself if he was going to "retaliate" or some crap like that.

I really doubt he is a member of GT, we are for the most part very respectful people online, and there are only a couple people I know who are not, and even they wouldn't do something like this. Well, I take that back, there is one person I know who is disrespectful online, and has the ability to do something like this, but I'm not pointing any fingers.

Bottom line, you need your own private server for your clan. Spread the word about it personally if you have to.

Re: Hack Name

Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2011 2:40 pm
by Grev
1FGR1NightGhost wrote:Maybe that worked..

Cus now hes not doing it as *****, he now just does it as "=FGR= Is Gay" (<taking up 3 lines), it still crashes our servers, but not anyone elses???
Jokes on him for thinking "gay" is an insult. How old is he, five?

Re: Hack Name

Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2011 2:49 pm
by Twilight_Warrior
Protip:
Run a PC Dedicated.
http://www.lucasfiles.com/?s=&action=file&id=1234

It's fairly simple to set up, you can run it in the background AND play at the same time (or just run it in the background, meaning the host doesn't even have to be there), and you can ban people by IP address so they are not allowed in the server. It also logs everything so you can go back and see who did what.

Also (though you can do this without a PC Dedicated server), you can set up an admin password so higher-ups can manage the server even if the host is away.
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Also, what you can do is have the PC Dedicated server be the passworded clan server. Then have a SECOND server that is public for recruitment purposes. If the 5 year old crashes the public server, just hop into the private one for a while. And if your members aren't smart enough to figure out where to find the password for the private, do you really want them in the clan, anyway?

Re: Hack Name

Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2011 6:31 pm
by 1FGR1NightGhost
Thanks, the pws seem to stop him.


And hes not 5 (lest i dont think) He is on gametoast, and he is a respected player, and hes a huge following cus of his popular mod.

Re: Hack Name

Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2011 9:38 pm
by sim-al2
1FGR1NightGhost wrote: And hes not 5 (lest i dont think) He is on gametoast, and he is a respected player, and hes a huge following cus of his popular mod.
Knowing the member who you speak of, I highly doubt it's him as even though he does know how, he was much more honor than going around and insulting people in such a blatant manner.

Re: Hack Name

Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2011 11:42 pm
by Paperclip
I however think this is pretty funny. check out www.fgrintel.webs.com for some laughs. Here I will copy and paste something from the site.

Details: Upon coming in in force and taking the admin pw, we banned cyk, and shouted some anti-pwn propaganda under the admin chat (which pissed alot of people off =) ); however, cyk used remote manager to bann us all

heres another one

Details: This time, we banned 2 admin (^Shaggydog and ^hopz^(?)<i think..) before changing the map to endor, and shouting even more anti-pwn propaganda/flame. We then shut down the server before it could be recovered by any of the opressors. =)

That kind of dedicated server costs money you know...

Re: Hack Name

Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2011 2:50 am
by Twilight_Warrior
Paperclip wrote: That kind of dedicated server costs money you know...
It does? Really? Well shoot, ive been running one off my personal PC for years now for free...
Dangit! Why couldn't someone tell me? Who do I make the check out to?
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It only costs money to purchase server space from somebody else. It doesn't cost you a cent to run the program on your own computer. Well, except for electricity.

Re: Hack Name

Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2011 10:30 am
by 1FGR1NightGhost
sim-al2 wrote:
1FGR1NightGhost wrote: And hes not 5 (lest i dont think) He is on gametoast, and he is a respected player, and hes a huge following cus of his popular mod.
Knowing the member who you speak of, I highly doubt it's him as even though he does know how, he was much more honor than going around and insulting people in such a blatant manner.
How do you know who it is?

But now he is sending me flame PMs...


@Paperclip. I am on this site as a modder, not the rebel noob i am. YOUR the one bringing politics into this, NOT ME!!!!!