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Solving Hacker Problem
- Thread starter TanDogan
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IP bans are not the most effective at stopping hackers, and it often hurts regular players more than hackers themselves. It's a sledgehammer when a scalpel is needed.
Once a long time ago, a Sr. Moderator banned an IP for a guy who had tons of accounts and kept coming back to screw around. Hacking and Abuse, obviously wrong, and he had a bone to pick with the staff (probably because he didn't like facing consequences to his own actions). Over the next three days, about five or six other players came forward, all reporting that they'd been banned for a reason they were innocent of, and had the records to prove it. We were stumped why they were banned until we realized they were all on the same IP. They explained that they lived in a large apartment complex and that they were leaching off an open WiFi spot; all of it was proven to us before the ban was removed. Ultimately we ended up dealing with the trouble-maker exactly as we do now: persistently banning them, no matter where they come from.
And the type of ban doesn't seem to discourage hackers either. Hackers don't think with long-term prospects in mind when it involves permanent removal.
Trilexium
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Changing your IP is very easy, not to mention VPNs. For people who hack using accounts their own accounts, this would cause problems for them- however, accounts lists are easy to get your hands on nowadays, so for many, getting banned on one account is no object when they have another 999 at their disposal.
If only it were that simple, it would be great.
If only it were that simple, it would be great.
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