Several of the ideas discussed focused on identifying when capped and uncapped markets differ and presume that indicates market manipulation. However, each of these concepts focused on manipulation that was absent a newsworthy trigger. The discussed interventions would fail when a market manipulator simply tied their manipulations to real world news events. A well-funded manipulator could time bets to magnify the impact of candidate A favoring news, and blunt that for candidate B. The arbitrage players would quickly identify that the uncapped market shifted faster towards A and slower towards B, and would begin making predictive arbitrage bets on the capped market in exactly this fashion - working for the manipulator, before the manipulator itself begins to act.
I don't understand all the people on the net claiming that banning all these accounts right before the RMAH came out was to increase the price of items and thus gain a bigger share. As with all transactional systems, blizzard isn't planning on raking in money from 1,000 people buying $100 items, but from 1,000,000 people buying $4 items. In-game inflation will greatly reduce Blizzard's profit, not increase it.
I sat through the talk about this exploit at DefCon, called "Hacking Millions of Home Routers" or something like that. What was discussed during that talk includes a method for accessing the _LAN_ side of the router by an external attacker. A live demo showed the presenter using the exact same default password "password1" with his published tool. Many posters have argued that Verizon was out of line for using their backdoor port to do password modifications, but given the choice between getting 0wned by either your ISP or some Russian or Chinese hackers, I'd take the devil I know.
The good news is that according to the DefCon talk, changing from the default password makes the attack much more difficult. Perhaps a dead-tree mailer would have been preferable to many, but with exploits being released to so many people at once, quick action is the best course, IMHO.
My relative has a company that inserts local commercials into cable television. Frequently, local companies produce their own ads for him. Every new commercial is digitized, and he sets the volume on them one by one to be appropriate. However, the only way he figured out "appropriate" was by setting it to a a certain level, listening when it played _live_, and then calibrating future ads to the right volume based on that. His ear is the only standard for his ads precisely because the cable provider isn't doing any volume manipulation or standardization downstream of him.
Arcane mages (a specialization) are mages that wear plate. Shapeshifters are mages that spend all their time in animal form. Warriors specialized in ranged weapons are equally competent at it as rogues. It isn't as simplistic as the review makes it, and I've been quite happy with it.
It doesn't surprise me. With the exception maybe of blizzard, it seems most MMO games are wholly focused on preventing cheating and entirely disregard client security as a result. I would bet that many chat interfaces have gaping holes since they aren't "core" to the gameplay - plus it gives the attacker simultaneous access to the maximum number of players.
Imagine if someone nefarious had (or did) find this exploit first. Account stealing of even 10% of an MMO's playerbase would immediately compromise any financial viability of the publisher/developer. With such a high risk, why is so little time/money spent on finding these exploits?
I don't want to start running my games in a sandbox because I can't trust the industry to take care of itself.
> they can't stop me from taking pictures in what is considered a > public place... For the record, I know shopping malls are > privately owned...
One of these things is not like the other.
*Businesses* allow *customers* access to *their* property on *their* terms. Don't agree? Try pitching a tent in the food court.
While malls are privately owned, hasn't the Supreme Court held that protests inside malls must be treated as public speech? Could you extrapolate a legal cause based on this?
We should flood these terrorist groups with engineers and let them improve all their weapons. Afterwards, they'll have pieces left over and nothing will work.
Isn't there some saying about "give an engineer a broken computer and he'll give you a working radio"?
Maybe you want to share something with a friend, that several thousand other users have an identical copy of. The scenario itself is not implausible, abandonware computer games come to mind for one. Free online CD quality releases are another.
This argument is specious because the protocols of the turing test specify that both the human and the computer are [b]trying[/b] to convince the judge they are human. You figurative AI would be "sensible" enough not to blurt out a computationally difficult answer any faster than a human would. A true AI would be more likely to ask "why do you want to know?"
Just because he isn't going to be on the Ballot doesn't mean you can't make a statement by voting for him. As a left-leaner in a hugely Blue state, my vote will mean more to Colbert than Hil/Obama/Gore/whoever -
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Several of the ideas discussed focused on identifying when capped and uncapped markets differ and presume that indicates market manipulation. However, each of these concepts focused on manipulation that was absent a newsworthy trigger. The discussed interventions would fail when a market manipulator simply tied their manipulations to real world news events. A well-funded manipulator could time bets to magnify the impact of candidate A favoring news, and blunt that for candidate B. The arbitrage players would quickly identify that the uncapped market shifted faster towards A and slower towards B, and would begin making predictive arbitrage bets on the capped market in exactly this fashion - working for the manipulator, before the manipulator itself begins to act.
I don't understand all the people on the net claiming that banning all these accounts right before the RMAH came out was to increase the price of items and thus gain a bigger share. As with all transactional systems, blizzard isn't planning on raking in money from 1,000 people buying $100 items, but from 1,000,000 people buying $4 items. In-game inflation will greatly reduce Blizzard's profit, not increase it.
In the case details it mentions that his paypal revenues were either $900K or $1.2Mil
I sat through the talk about this exploit at DefCon, called "Hacking Millions of Home Routers" or something like that. What was discussed during that talk includes a method for accessing the _LAN_ side of the router by an external attacker. A live demo showed the presenter using the exact same default password "password1" with his published tool. Many posters have argued that Verizon was out of line for using their backdoor port to do password modifications, but given the choice between getting 0wned by either your ISP or some Russian or Chinese hackers, I'd take the devil I know.
The good news is that according to the DefCon talk, changing from the default password makes the attack much more difficult. Perhaps a dead-tree mailer would have been preferable to many, but with exploits being released to so many people at once, quick action is the best course, IMHO.
My relative has a company that inserts local commercials into cable television. Frequently, local companies produce their own ads for him. Every new commercial is digitized, and he sets the volume on them one by one to be appropriate. However, the only way he figured out "appropriate" was by setting it to a a certain level, listening when it played _live_, and then calibrating future ads to the right volume based on that. His ear is the only standard for his ads precisely because the cable provider isn't doing any volume manipulation or standardization downstream of him.
Urist Stormfist cancels drink: Interrupted by Macaque Hulk.
Urist Stormfist has been struck down.
Arcane mages (a specialization) are mages that wear plate. Shapeshifters are mages that spend all their time in animal form. Warriors specialized in ranged weapons are equally competent at it as rogues.
It isn't as simplistic as the review makes it, and I've been quite happy with it.
Using Your Data Center to Warm the Sea?
It doesn't surprise me. With the exception maybe of blizzard, it seems most MMO games are wholly focused on preventing cheating and entirely disregard client security as a result. I would bet that many chat interfaces have gaping holes since they aren't "core" to the gameplay - plus it gives the attacker simultaneous access to the maximum number of players.
Imagine if someone nefarious had (or did) find this exploit first. Account stealing of even 10% of an MMO's playerbase would immediately compromise any financial viability of the publisher/developer. With such a high risk, why is so little time/money spent on finding these exploits?
I don't want to start running my games in a sandbox because I can't trust the industry to take care of itself.
> they can't stop me from taking pictures in what is considered a ... For the record, I know shopping malls are
> public place
> privately owned...
One of these things is not like the other.
*Businesses* allow *customers* access to *their* property on *their* terms. Don't agree? Try pitching a tent in the food court.
While malls are privately owned, hasn't the Supreme Court held that protests inside malls must be treated as public speech? Could you extrapolate a legal cause based on this?
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I think you digress more than you refrigerate; sadly, this post is resplendent.
We should flood these terrorist groups with engineers and let them improve all their weapons. Afterwards, they'll have pieces left over and nothing will work. Isn't there some saying about "give an engineer a broken computer and he'll give you a working radio"?
Maybe you want to share something with a friend, that several thousand other users have an identical copy of. The scenario itself is not implausible, abandonware computer games come to mind for one. Free online CD quality releases are another.
This argument is specious because the protocols of the turing test specify that both the human and the computer are [b]trying[/b] to convince the judge they are human. You figurative AI would be "sensible" enough not to blurt out a computationally difficult answer any faster than a human would. A true AI would be more likely to ask "why do you want to know?"
Am I the only one who thinks the article is worthless without pictures?
Ron Paul spam is something I can read and readily ignore, but when that crap starts getting modded INSIGHTFUL? F that
Just because he isn't going to be on the Ballot doesn't mean you can't make a statement by voting for him. As a left-leaner in a hugely Blue state, my vote will mean more to Colbert than Hil/Obama/Gore/whoever -
It may be the biggest scam in Eve so far, but it has far less flair that some of the others. Plus, the perptrator was a prick :-(