My parents are skeptical about me hosting.

[Buu]

One time I portforwarded, and I was hacked by some guy in Germany. He downloaded all of my passwords on to his hacking device, stole all of my files, and replaced my desktop background with goatse. It is a highly risky process...

this mans words are  false

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[Trinick!]

Port forwarding is no more dangerous than loading a website. All internet connections go through a socket which is bound to a port. The difference between connecting to a server and hosting a server is that you have to open up a spot on your computer for them to connect to. When this port has no socket bound to it, no connections will be able to go through. It is impossible to be hacked by forwarding ports for Blockland.

Furthermore, it is not required to host servers. UPnP support was added a while ago. Enable that on your router.

[Acerblock]

this mans words are  false

Wait what?

[chaos 2]

Oh and Btw DDoSing in Bl is 50X rares as like garry's mod,TF2, Cs Etc and there was a real(?) ddoser in bl but he stopped (or not) http://forum.blockland.us/index.php?topic=209587.0 That is his/her drama. it's from september something.

[pecon98]

Oh and Btw DDoSing in Bl is 50X rares as like garry's mod,TF2, Cs Etc and there was a real(?) ddoser in bl but he stopped (or not) http://forum.blockland.us/index.php?topic=209587.0 That is his/her drama. it's from last motnh or something.

You're not really helping.

port forwarding doesn't make this any more or less likely.

[Aniken 911]

I don't know how to say this without being rude, so I'm just going to be rude.  Your dad shovels coal for a living and I am a goddamn professional computer programmer.  I know more about this subject than your dad.  Port forwarding, if done correctly, is completely safe.

Actually, my stepdad is the president of a software company. He and my mom just have no idea how BL works.

[Acerblock]

Actually, my stepdad is the president of a software company. He and my mom just have no idea how BL works.

What company?

[Buu]

Actually, my stepdad is the president of a software company. He and my mom just have no idea how BL works.

kalph remove it now

[Aniken 911]

What company?

Sorry, not telling.

Let's just say they make semi-popular software, including a website creator like Textwrangler or Notepad.

[Acerblock]

Sorry, not telling.

Let's just say they make semi-popular software, including a website creator like Textwrangler or Notepad.

Oh come on, please tell me.

[Aniken 911]

Oh come on, please tell me.

Fine.

Barebones Software.

[Ben Grapevine]

http://www.barebones.com/ ?

EDIT:;

Fine.

Barebones Software.

yep I WAS RIGHT WOOO

[Acerblock]

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bare_Bones_Software

Ah, very cool.

[sirrockyqo]

Tell them a low value target doesnt get major hackers.
Also Blockland is small, and has very little to none hackers.

[Acerblock]

Guys, Blockland itself is not hack able.