In private browsing mode, hook fopen, all "w" calls get redirected to a special directory, all fopen "r" calls get checked to confirm they are either referencing that directory or referencing known acceptable files (maybe certain preferences).
That instantly solves ALL in-process code. Its not something that would share all its code across platforms since the hooking mechanisms are different but it is going to be the only sure fire way to be safe.
Out-of-process plugins would require a different approach, but since the browser starts them it could hook them as well if the effort was put forth. You hook flash and don't let it write anywhere but where you tell it too, then those retarded flash cookies can't give you away either.
Clear the directory when leaving private browsing mode.
I can't think of any real OS that you can't do this on fairly easy. Windows is doable although it takes a little bit of effort, most UNIX clones are trivial to hook. Might be a problem for browser ports to oddball devices (which I'm counting phones in this group since they are radically different, even if common) but its also probably much less of a concern there. I'm not aware of a private mode for Mobile safari so it doesnt' seem that anyone cares anyway, or am I just missing it?
hahaha that was almost as funny as it wasn't 2 months ago since its likely that even with your fingers in the wrong place the iPhone works better than whatever you're carrying.
How the fuck can you get ripped off by an 'SMS Trojan'?
Okay, so it sends SMS messages to 'preimum numbers'... so its a safe bet that the guy who wrote it is the guy who owns those 'premium numbers'.
It should take all of about 8 seconds for someone to turn off the SMS number so the messages no longer get charged to anyone and arrest the fink who started it.
Could it be someone using a trojan directed at an innocent 3rd party? Sure. Is that whats happening? No, stop being so naive.
In a tier 1 ship (Kestrel) that I got in my first day of playing. It simply can not be made safe enough to carry that kind of loot or safe in that area really.
With a proper escort, warp disruptors and other jamming technics as well as big guns and enough frigates the battle could rage on for a rather long time.
His escort could have prevented anyone from leaving with any PLEX which weren't destroyed in the initial ship destruction.
Whats stopping them is that we (the players) don't want them to change it.
To lose that many PLEX you have to be an idiot. There are about 15 ways I can come up with that would have mitigated the damage, the obvious would be not carrying 74 for items around in one hauler.
The other obvious issue is to not travel in areas with that sort of pirate presence... of course, thats where the real money is at so you either take risks and make money (and possibly lose it) or you don't take risks and don't make much money.
The risk makes the game. Too many games now days have basically no cost for losing. EVE doesn't cater to players who want to be safe and talk to their friends, its for people who want real 'danger' in their game. No risk means no reward, you just grind away until you complete the task.
You can actually LOSE skill points by repeated deaths and stupidity in EVE. There are certain ships where you don't have the option of not losing a fair amount of skill points if it gets destroyed.
CCP = Company who made and runs EVE currently. CCPgamesonline.com ISK = InterSteller Kredits... In game gold. PLEX = Pilot License EXtension... a 30 day game time extension that can be purchased in game using ISK or on their website with real currency.
PLEX is the only item you can (according to the ToS) buy with real world money and trade in game. It allows players to work in game to buy game time without actually spending real money.
No, its not a game that caters to pussies to put it bluntly. Its a game for hard core players. Its really a GUI on top of a VERY VERY complex spreadsheet. Its not meant for the WoW players.
Its meant for people who want to play hardcore and CCP is catering to those players.
They stand to make even less money if they try to be another WoW.
It wasn't hacked, he was killed and the destruction of his ship resulted in the destruction of the PLEX items.
He wasn't hacked, he got blown the fuck up because he didn't have a good escort to protect him while carrying roughly 23.3 billion ISK. This is just part of the game.
As a note, GOOD income rate in safer areas with the right equipment and grinding your heart out can earn you about 10 million ISK an hour. Thats roughly 97 days of solid game play to accumulate enough ISK to buy the 74 PLEX he lost, assuming that the lost of those 74 PLEX doesn't effect the cost of PLEX in the game much. I haven't been playing long enough to know if that low of a number will actually effect the economy but I suspect it won't since they are easily replaced by just spending $15 for one on the website.
This is not a game for you to play so don't try to change it so it is.
This is a game where getting killed HURTS, especially if you've not used any of the mitigation methods and safe practices that you should have used.
The only reason I even started playing EVE was because its not a pussied out game where you basically do nothing but grind and even death has no real loss to it.
You do not want to die in EVE. You lose skills, you lose implants, you lose your usually rather expensive ship and you lose your cargo.
There are methods to avoid it:
Stay in more secure areas.
Travel in well armed groups.
Travel in a ship with protections against warp disruptors so you can always get the hell out of dodge when something bad happens.
DO NOT EVER USE AUTOPILOT TO TRAVEL BETWEEN STAR SYSTEMS as it INTENTIONALLY leaves you wide open for a large portion of the travel time.
Most of these methods mean you earn less money, but take less risk so you have to figure out the balance.
The fact that there is an actual cost to being killed makes not being killed worth something.
Yes, you can buy them in game with game currency, but they are the standard way you pay for your account. Normally the system just buys and applies a PLEX for you each month with your game time runs out using your credit card. However you can buy them in game using ingame funds instead of paying real cash.
Its the only legal way to trade real world items for in game items.
In my region currently a PLEX costs about 315 Million ISK, or $15 real world dollars from their website.
The forbid selling anything in game for real money, with PLEX being the only loophole.
I can't pay you $15 (according to the ToS) for doing my dirty work, but I can give you a PLEX. Or I can buy several from the website and sell them ingame for roughly $280 million credits or so and give you ISK.
What the better question is.
WHY THE FUCK was this guy flying around with 74 PLEX without an escort? Its not something you would normally transport unless you're selling it, you just leave them somewhere safe in a starbase that isn't going to be taken over by an enemy.
No way I would have left home with that kinda cargo without a fully armed escort.
Not to mention that in reality it's far easier to just upload a backup copy of the site to a new server than it is to move a cargo ship.
Other than 'land is expensive' which is hard to believe since you can build a datacenter more or less anywhere on cheap land OUTSIDE of major cities... I just don't see any advantge at all, maybe some loopholes that haven't been caught yet but won't take long to close.
Because its a choice we're pretty confident in and have been for years?
We thank Apple because the shear popularity of the iPhone and its lack of Flash support means websites pretty much have to take notice or cut out a significant portion of their potential viewers.
Apples position with Flash on the iPhone is bigger than just 'its my choice to put flash on the iPhone' which you'd recognize if you weren't too caught up in 'omg I can't run flash so I can't also run flashblock' retardedness.
$20 says you use flashblock on your PC... don't you?
As for 'disallowing a feature that wouldn't hurt you at all' then I'm going to guess you've been living in a very small room with no windows for the last 10 years or so as there are plenty of ways Flash (AND browser plugins in general) can hurt you a computer, ESPECIALLY a mobile device with all my contact information on it.
When you reduce the whole situation down to 'its a choice or its not a choice' then it sounds silly like you say. You have to be retarded to reduce it to that level though.
You buy galciv2 from a shop with a key thats already been used... and you blame them?
Should have just downloaded it from Stardock directly.
Stardock and more specifically Impulse (their Steam equiv) do not apply DRM, but just like Steam, the game manufactures still might. In fact most games on Impulse still have their original DRM in them just not 'as active' as it mostly doesn't do disk checks anymore but all the other bits tend to remain.
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before anyone points out the obvious, replace fopen with open
In private browsing mode, hook fopen, all "w" calls get redirected to a special directory, all fopen "r" calls get checked to confirm they are either referencing that directory or referencing known acceptable files (maybe certain preferences).
That instantly solves ALL in-process code. Its not something that would share all its code across platforms since the hooking mechanisms are different but it is going to be the only sure fire way to be safe.
Out-of-process plugins would require a different approach, but since the browser starts them it could hook them as well if the effort was put forth. You hook flash and don't let it write anywhere but where you tell it too, then those retarded flash cookies can't give you away either.
Clear the directory when leaving private browsing mode.
I can't think of any real OS that you can't do this on fairly easy. Windows is doable although it takes a little bit of effort, most UNIX clones are trivial to hook. Might be a problem for browser ports to oddball devices (which I'm counting phones in this group since they are radically different, even if common) but its also probably much less of a concern there. I'm not aware of a private mode for Mobile safari so it doesnt' seem that anyone cares anyway, or am I just missing it?
hahaha that was almost as funny as it wasn't 2 months ago since its likely that even with your fingers in the wrong place the iPhone works better than whatever you're carrying.
In Soviet Russia ... no.
How the fuck can you get ripped off by an 'SMS Trojan'?
Okay, so it sends SMS messages to 'preimum numbers' ... so its a safe bet that the guy who wrote it is the guy who owns those 'premium numbers'.
It should take all of about 8 seconds for someone to turn off the SMS number so the messages no longer get charged to anyone and arrest the fink who started it.
Could it be someone using a trojan directed at an innocent 3rd party? Sure. Is that whats happening? No, stop being so naive.
Ellison is neither fearless or innovative. Sorry to disappoint you.
They most certainly could make it worse.
The entire country could end up like California.
The one thing that congressman don't want is the country going down the tubes economically because that kills their bribe sources as well.
So I'm guessing you are some where in the age range of 4 to 8 then?
Peer reviewed ... heh, a simple random 'read it myself before I hit submit' should fix most of this kind of crap it seems to me.
Good job guys
Did he pay with them using real money?
He could have bought them with ISK in game just as easy.
The guy was in a dangerous area of space.
With $!200 worth of items
In a tier 1 ship (Kestrel) that I got in my first day of playing. It simply can not be made safe enough to carry that kind of loot or safe in that area really.
He was stupid.
He got what he deserved.
With a proper escort, warp disruptors and other jamming technics as well as big guns and enough frigates the battle could rage on for a rather long time.
His escort could have prevented anyone from leaving with any PLEX which weren't destroyed in the initial ship destruction.
Whats stopping them is that we (the players) don't want them to change it.
To lose that many PLEX you have to be an idiot. There are about 15 ways I can come up with that would have mitigated the damage, the obvious would be not carrying 74 for items around in one hauler.
The other obvious issue is to not travel in areas with that sort of pirate presence ... of course, thats where the real money is at so you either take risks and make money (and possibly lose it) or you don't take risks and don't make much money.
The risk makes the game. Too many games now days have basically no cost for losing. EVE doesn't cater to players who want to be safe and talk to their friends, its for people who want real 'danger' in their game. No risk means no reward, you just grind away until you complete the task.
You can actually LOSE skill points by repeated deaths and stupidity in EVE. There are certain ships where you don't have the option of not losing a fair amount of skill points if it gets destroyed.
The risk is what makes it worth playing.
CCP = Company who made and runs EVE currently. CCPgamesonline.com ... In game gold. ... a 30 day game time extension that can be purchased in game using ISK or on their website with real currency.
ISK = InterSteller Kredits
PLEX = Pilot License EXtension
PLEX is the only item you can (according to the ToS) buy with real world money and trade in game. It allows players to work in game to buy game time without actually spending real money.
No, its not a game that caters to pussies to put it bluntly. Its a game for hard core players. Its really a GUI on top of a VERY VERY complex spreadsheet. Its not meant for the WoW players.
Its meant for people who want to play hardcore and CCP is catering to those players.
They stand to make even less money if they try to be another WoW.
It wasn't hacked, he was killed and the destruction of his ship resulted in the destruction of the PLEX items.
He wasn't hacked, he got blown the fuck up because he didn't have a good escort to protect him while carrying roughly 23.3 billion ISK. This is just part of the game.
As a note, GOOD income rate in safer areas with the right equipment and grinding your heart out can earn you about 10 million ISK an hour. Thats roughly 97 days of solid game play to accumulate enough ISK to buy the 74 PLEX he lost, assuming that the lost of those 74 PLEX doesn't effect the cost of PLEX in the game much. I haven't been playing long enough to know if that low of a number will actually effect the economy but I suspect it won't since they are easily replaced by just spending $15 for one on the website.
No. That is not something they should ever do.
This is not WoW.
This is not a game for pussies.
This is not a game for you to play so don't try to change it so it is.
This is a game where getting killed HURTS, especially if you've not used any of the mitigation methods and safe practices that you should have used.
The only reason I even started playing EVE was because its not a pussied out game where you basically do nothing but grind and even death has no real loss to it.
You do not want to die in EVE. You lose skills, you lose implants, you lose your usually rather expensive ship and you lose your cargo.
There are methods to avoid it:
Stay in more secure areas.
Travel in well armed groups.
Travel in a ship with protections against warp disruptors so you can always get the hell out of dodge when something bad happens.
DO NOT EVER USE AUTOPILOT TO TRAVEL BETWEEN STAR SYSTEMS as it INTENTIONALLY leaves you wide open for a large portion of the travel time.
Most of these methods mean you earn less money, but take less risk so you have to figure out the balance.
The fact that there is an actual cost to being killed makes not being killed worth something.
Yes, you can buy them in game with game currency, but they are the standard way you pay for your account. Normally the system just buys and applies a PLEX for you each month with your game time runs out using your credit card. However you can buy them in game using ingame funds instead of paying real cash.
Its the only legal way to trade real world items for in game items.
In my region currently a PLEX costs about 315 Million ISK, or $15 real world dollars from their website.
The forbid selling anything in game for real money, with PLEX being the only loophole.
I can't pay you $15 (according to the ToS) for doing my dirty work, but I can give you a PLEX. Or I can buy several from the website and sell them ingame for roughly $280 million credits or so and give you ISK.
What the better question is.
WHY THE FUCK was this guy flying around with 74 PLEX without an escort? Its not something you would normally transport unless you're selling it, you just leave them somewhere safe in a starbase that isn't going to be taken over by an enemy.
No way I would have left home with that kinda cargo without a fully armed escort.
Not to mention that in reality it's far easier to just upload a backup copy of the site to a new server than it is to move a cargo ship.
Other than 'land is expensive' which is hard to believe since you can build a datacenter more or less anywhere on cheap land OUTSIDE of major cities... I just don't see any advantge at all, maybe some loopholes that haven't been caught yet but won't take long to close.
The whole thing seems really silly.
Lower latency from an ISP perspective pretty much always translates to overselling less.
Thats not going to happen as the return on investment isn't there.
Because its a choice we're pretty confident in and have been for years?
We thank Apple because the shear popularity of the iPhone and its lack of Flash support means websites pretty much have to take notice or cut out a significant portion of their potential viewers.
Apples position with Flash on the iPhone is bigger than just 'its my choice to put flash on the iPhone' which you'd recognize if you weren't too caught up in 'omg I can't run flash so I can't also run flashblock' retardedness.
$20 says you use flashblock on your PC ... don't you?
As for 'disallowing a feature that wouldn't hurt you at all' then I'm going to guess you've been living in a very small room with no windows for the last 10 years or so as there are plenty of ways Flash (AND browser plugins in general) can hurt you a computer, ESPECIALLY a mobile device with all my contact information on it.
When you reduce the whole situation down to 'its a choice or its not a choice' then it sounds silly like you say. You have to be retarded to reduce it to that level though.
Most class rooms could be replaced with books and VCRs and be just as useful.
Not all, but most.
Of course, most teachers and professors are generally not as good at teaching as your typical McDonald's manager.
You buy galciv2 from a shop with a key thats already been used ... and you blame them?
Should have just downloaded it from Stardock directly.
Stardock and more specifically Impulse (their Steam equiv) do not apply DRM, but just like Steam, the game manufactures still might. In fact most games on Impulse still have their original DRM in them just not 'as active' as it mostly doesn't do disk checks anymore but all the other bits tend to remain.
Which is why we didn't see retarded online activation crap until he left/was leaving the helm anyway.