Dark, It's not really vandals. It's the botnet guys, and they don't care one whit about mudding or audio games or anything else. All they're trying to do is get machines that they can add to their botnet.
The basic idea is that the bad guys get a huge number of computers under central control, then they use those machines to send spam or to generate advertising clicks to make money. That's all they want - machines they can use to generate money via various kinds of spam. They're parasites, and it sucks a lot - but there's no easy way to get rid of them, and all we can do is stand up to the constant assault. The way that I handle it is via security domains, so that different machines run things that are more risky. A good example of this would be the AA wiki server, which is on a separate machine because it's a PHP based and probably hackable. If one machine is compromised, it doesn't necessarily affect the rest of the network, and you can keep everything up. Dennis Towne Alter Aeon MUD http://www.alteraeon.com On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 10:09 AM, dark <[email protected]> wrote: > Wow, that's even scummier than I thought, some people are just naturally > vandals. > > one thing I do wonder however, is how games like Alteraeon, cor exiles, > kingdom of laothing etc stay up. Perhaps, it would be worth having words > with dentin, the Ce dev (I can pass on her mail if you like), and some of > the other developers of accessible multiplayer online games about their > security arrangements since it would be a bloody massive shame if such > attacks did! indeed ruine things, and this is not the first I've heard of > this sort of thing in the accessible games community, since audiogames.net > fell victim to a very nasty hack a couple of years ago and was offline for > about amonth (luckily we do back stuff up). > > > Beware the Grue! > > Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected].
