I just wonder how your checking data after the client writes to the socket.
Couldn't I just send any username I wanted to? Whether or not I got it from the database..
Cannabin0l wrote:Does that mean random, or innocent players could be banned. D:If what Faeyn suggested can happen, then yes. But if it only retrieves usernames from the griefers' database, then no.
Cannabin0l wrote:Does that mean random, or innocent players could be banned. D:That's what I'm referring to
CirJohn wrote:Guys, I don't know about Canada/Australia/etc, but accessing a database of stolen account information is a felony offense in the US. I don't reccommend using this.How is it a felony offense to pull usernames that can be accessed anyway? It's not like he's pulling passwords, it's only usernames and that's it.
Rokkrwolf312 wrote:I falls under federal fraud laws as a conspiracy charge. It's a technicallity, but it's still illegal if it is a paid account. The real issue is that you can't prove that you never used the account information. That database has to have both usernames and passwords of the stolen accounts, and any access to it returns both.CirJohn wrote:Guys, I don't know about Canada/Australia/etc, but accessing a database of stolen account information is a felony offense in the US. I don't reccommend using this.How is it a felony offense to pull usernames that can be accessed anyway? It's not like he's pulling passwords, it's only usernames and that's it.
CirJohn wrote:That database only allows pulling username, and you might as well go ahead and say mcbans is a felony then because it has probably 95% of minecraft usernames.Rokkrwolf312 wrote:I falls under federal fraud laws as a conspiracy charge. It's a technicallity, but it's still illegal if it is a paid account. The real issue is that you can't prove that you never used the account information. That database has to have both usernames and passwords of the stolen accounts, and any access to it returns both.CirJohn wrote:Guys, I don't know about Canada/Australia/etc, but accessing a database of stolen account information is a felony offense in the US. I don't reccommend using this.How is it a felony offense to pull usernames that can be accessed anyway? It's not like he's pulling passwords, it's only usernames and that's it.
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