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Drama / Re: Maxx: A Case Study on BLF's Worst User
« on: July 05, 2016, 04:51:58 AM »so im wondering if the first half has significance on it's own.Not for tracking location.
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Drama / Re: Maxx: A Case Study on BLF's Worst User
« on: July 05, 2016, 04:49:52 AM »If I get some of the spammers other IPs, could McJob partially geolocate them, as he said that IPs are assigned by region?I'm not getting involved.
If you want to geolocate IPs, here is a fairly accurate tool which I've previously tested a bunch of IPs on. It won't hand back the exact location, but it down to the cities for most of the IPs I checked.
As I said though, IPs are dynamic and might have been assigned to a new client depending on how long you've waited to check these IPs against the location. Furthermore, it's entirely possible that somebody in the same city has shared the IP addresses as well. Take the results with a mighty grain of salt.
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Drama / Re: Maxx: A Case Study on BLF's Worst User
« on: July 05, 2016, 04:35:02 AM »
Another fact about IPv4 Addresses.
There's an organisation called the "Internet Assigned Numbers Authority" (IANA) whose job it is to split up the IP addresses and hand them out to 5 regions in the world; these IP addresses are then split further into "blocks" which are distributed between the major ISPs, as well as businesses, universities, Government agencies and so on.
This means that each ISP has a limited range of IPs that they can assign.
This list does not say who owns each block, but it should at least let you see that all of those blocks are split up between every ISP in America.
There's an organisation called the "Internet Assigned Numbers Authority" (IANA) whose job it is to split up the IP addresses and hand them out to 5 regions in the world; these IP addresses are then split further into "blocks" which are distributed between the major ISPs, as well as businesses, universities, Government agencies and so on.
This means that each ISP has a limited range of IPs that they can assign.
This list does not say who owns each block, but it should at least let you see that all of those blocks are split up between every ISP in America.
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Drama / Re: Maxx: A Case Study on BLF's Worst User
« on: July 05, 2016, 04:24:03 AM »It would be very reasonable to assume that, because the name McZealot is password protected.I just want to come back to this for a second; your password is only as secure as the people who hold it on their server.
I wouldn't trust the CyTube guys as far as I could throw a cow.
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Drama / Re: Maxx: A Case Study on BLF's Worst User
« on: July 05, 2016, 03:58:21 AM »The chances of someone on the BLF also having a 73.74 ip are so incredibly low*For reference, the total number of valid IP addresses (using IPv4 only) are roughly 3,720,249,092.
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Drama / Re: Maxx: A Case Study on BLF's Worst User
« on: July 05, 2016, 03:56:47 AM »from my experience the ip changes when you unplug the router and restart itHow and when the IP changes is down to your ISP, who may not need to rotate IPs as often if they don't have as many total users of the service. I know that using my Australian ISP, I held the same IP for about 6 weeks as I was hosting a TF2 server for my friends and every time I checked my public IP it was the same number.
I'm sure you could request an IP update, but just let it be known that "Dynamic IP" does not mean "this IP will change every single time you go offline".
im not a technician but im pretty sure they are fundamentally similar. isn't a DDOS a DOS from multiple assailants? in this case, they can be used interchangeably, because we are debating on whether or not a public IP poses a danger to maxx.A Distributed Denial of Service attack is one that involves multiple systems sending garbage data to a target system(s). While they may involve use of a botnet or people working together to bring a service down (see Anonymous/LolSec for some good examples), in many cases they involved comprised computers which have been infected with a virus; the payload of which set to spam a specific service with data at a set time (MyDoom is a very famous example, designed to take down Microsoft IIRC).
I haven't been following the argument so I have no idea how you want to use the terms, but there's the facts for you.
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Drama / Re: Maxx: A Case Study on BLF's Worst User
« on: July 05, 2016, 03:46:48 AM »brother literally unplug itDepending on the type of attack, this would only help if the attacker has stopped sending data once the device goes offline.
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Again; I'm not contributing any arguments to the original drama. I just wanted to clarify some facts on these kinds of attacks.
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Drama / Re: Maxx: A Case Study on BLF's Worst User
« on: July 05, 2016, 03:43:30 AM »WTF dude are you for real. it is literally impossible to be ddosed with closed ports.The networking equipment must still handle all incoming requests; the whole point of a flood is to spam target's device (whether that be a modem or whatever) with enough incoming data that the system is using up all CPU and RAM resources trying to process the info. Closed Ports simply guarantee no data gets through, but it does not guarentee that data won't slow the device down while it tries to sort out if the data is allowed to pass through.
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Drama / Re: Maxx: A Case Study on BLF's Worst User
« on: July 05, 2016, 03:41:18 AM »
I'm not going to comment on any of the actual drama; I just want to clarify a fact.
DoS attacks can be performed against anybody who is connected to the Internet, regardless of if they're acting as a web-server or as just a client, so long as you have access to their IP address, as that allows you to directly communicate with their networking equipment. There are, in fact, many web-services which you can pay to flood a specific IP address, which should usually be a server but could just be an individual's computer.
There's no difference between a device acting as a server and a device acting as a client in terms of IP, outside of the fact that most web-servers use static IPs while most clients/users have dynamic IPs, but technically you can ask your ISP to switch your account type at any time.
You can't dos someone who isn't hosting something, and if someone is hosting something you already have their ipDoS stands for "Denial of Service", and it's a form of attack where garbage data is spammed to a target "server", in the hopes that the garbage will interrupt and suspend networking services for the target either by crashing or simply flooding the network devices on the target-side.
DoS attacks can be performed against anybody who is connected to the Internet, regardless of if they're acting as a web-server or as just a client, so long as you have access to their IP address, as that allows you to directly communicate with their networking equipment. There are, in fact, many web-services which you can pay to flood a specific IP address, which should usually be a server but could just be an individual's computer.
There's no difference between a device acting as a server and a device acting as a client in terms of IP, outside of the fact that most web-servers use static IPs while most clients/users have dynamic IPs, but technically you can ask your ISP to switch your account type at any time.
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Creativity / Re: Lego Stuff
« on: July 04, 2016, 11:01:12 PM »arent u forgetting lego rockband??Console exclusive. I'm not focusing on console games for the time being.
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Drama / Re: Any players you just simply hate?
« on: July 04, 2016, 05:44:38 AM »Uh huh and how many times have you been to a Mexican restuarant that isn't Texmex and is owned by actually mexicans?Turns out that actual Mexican people can't cook either, mate.
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Off Topic / Re: Can Steam Support remove a VAC ban from my profile? (Resolved)
« on: July 03, 2016, 07:29:57 PM »
Valve have a userbase of over 125 million accounts, with an active userbase of somewhere around 12 million.
They don't have the time or people to physically inspect every single case of VAC-bans, and more over there's NO proof in your case that Cheat Engine was open on accident. You simply cannot prove you didn't have it open for non-malicious purposes because there's no data recorded about how Cheat Engine works at runtime; you simply got caught with it open and that's the end of that.
You were the one who left Cheat Engine running and you should have full-well known that multiplayer games that are secured by VAC will be triggered by so-called "cheat devices". Cheat Engine isn't always used for cheats and there's a lot of positive uses for it, but that doesn't excuse you getting sloppy.
You cannot and will not get the ban revoked unless you get a new account.
They don't have the time or people to physically inspect every single case of VAC-bans, and more over there's NO proof in your case that Cheat Engine was open on accident. You simply cannot prove you didn't have it open for non-malicious purposes because there's no data recorded about how Cheat Engine works at runtime; you simply got caught with it open and that's the end of that.
You were the one who left Cheat Engine running and you should have full-well known that multiplayer games that are secured by VAC will be triggered by so-called "cheat devices". Cheat Engine isn't always used for cheats and there's a lot of positive uses for it, but that doesn't excuse you getting sloppy.
You cannot and will not get the ban revoked unless you get a new account.
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Off Topic / Re: Post Users You Like (uh)
« on: July 03, 2016, 07:04:37 PM »I've barely asked for attenton so far.Yes, you have.
I've also listed my own users, but so far only one guy remembers me/likes me.Maybe that says something to you? Maybe you aren't liked, or aren't notable enough in this community?
Maybe if you seek context you'd understand things.Maybe if you seeked some prozac you wouldn't be demanded other users to like you.
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Off Topic / Re: Hillary Clinton reads 'sigh' off her teleprompter
« on: July 03, 2016, 08:48:26 AM »it's hail hydra you boomerang-throwing kangaroo-loving ostralian cassowary cuntlordSiege Heil !