James Gibson Autism Appreciation Station

[Arrador]

Oh god Prencleeve I'm really about to call up your house and tell you to stop fucking around for your own sake but international rates for cellphones are absolutely fucking ridiculous

So I'm just going to send another pizza.

I'd like some pizza

[Fix Lag]

I'd like some pizza

Make your own website and alliance dedicated to destroying the CFC and get yourself banned from Eve Online for being an idiot; then we can talk.

[Manfred Hideous]

And the two are one and the same.

Cybil?

[Feathersword]

If I were a software developer looking to implement an "IP ban" solution, I'd include a MAC address or other system identifier in my client handshake so that clients using a dynamic IP won't be affected. And I'd have a nice little table of identifiers so that I could keep track of the various systems used by the account holder as well. It's an easy and elegant way to keep people from logging on. If I was paranoid I'd include a timed IP ban too, with a timer that would reset/extend each time this IP would try to log on or create new accounts.

Not impossible to circumvent (try a VM combined with a VPN), but it'll catch the general 13-year old with ease.

And while I'd really rather not play Eve with this little douchebag around, I don't play Eve so you guys can have him and keep him.

[T'Renn]

no they don't use a MAC address checker since that's too easy to spoof. It's something else - I think an RSA hash on each client install that generates its private key against other hardware components -- like they do for WGA auth. at any rate, it could just be straight IP and the guy didn't home his VPN right or something v0v don't know don't care really. Interesting theorycraft conversation to be had on CCP ban evasion though that would be great if it didn't, you know, probably get me banned from here for having it.

[Don Peyote]

Last year, when I was thirteen, all I did was run around the woods during the day and play videogames at night

This kid's missing out

No joke this is what I spent my summer holiday doing when I was thirteen

It was fucking awesome, saw a dead body and poked it with a stick (it was a cat though)

by the way jimbo you never did confirm or deny what pizza you were sent, so I'll say it again ; Quattro Formagi and Pepperoni

[Malaclypse]

Interesting theorycraft conversation to be had on CCP ban evasion though that would be great if it didn't, you know, probably get me banned from here for having it.

And why's that? Because the site's founder is blacklisted by CCP as a hacker?
Feel free to have that discussion. We've discussed python injections, botting, and other not EULA/ToS sanctioned actions here; can#t remember anyone ever getting banned for participating in those disucssions either.