The Last Stand

stfu zojak · Jo-chueh Joined: 19 Nov 2005 Posts: 118

Somebody develops a lightweight decal app that does something useful but in the background sends your characters name and ip address to his site. This IP address is then used for DOS attacks at appropriate times. Say for instance the developer has a hot key do DOS the player in the middle of a fight. (This explains how some people you fought always lagged you out in various no lag areas.) I know, many of you knew this alread and it is old hat.

Here's the new twist. When you have a good network protecting you from DOS attacks what's the cheat to do? Obviously use the nuklear option.
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/06/08/0119253&from=rss
You got it. Trash his registry and then mark his copy of windows as invalid. Thank you Microsoft!

Low Pan · Shi-Chueh Joined: 11 Jul 2005 Posts: 570

a fricking shamelss invasion of privacy...but what would you expect from MS. I would like to know what these "daily check-in's" w/ MS are about (i.e. what information is being viewed, what info is being transmitted, etc). If info is being sent from my machine isn't this computer piracy, I mean does the phisical file or info need to be physically taken from the programs or just copied to be computer piracy?