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Specialist
Profile Blog Joined April 2007
United States803 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-06-30 11:05:44
June 30 2011 09:54 GMT
#1
Hi...
I'm trying to get to Grandmaster but I lost 4 times by drop hack users

2 times were by EGIdra (fake)
and 2 times were by IBGJebacca

how do I deal with this... I really want to become GM but this is getting increasingly frustrating as people just drop hack to prevent me from getting GM. I just lost 48 pts total dealing with them... and I'm at 1.9 k so this is getting increasingly frustrating.

I wish blizzard would be competent, really

*
Djagulingu
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Germany3605 Posts
June 30 2011 10:00 GMT
#2
10-20 minutes ago, someone did the same to HwangSin on US ladder. I hate when it happens.
"windows bash is a steaming heap of shit" tofucake
endy
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Switzerland8970 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-06-30 10:46:26
June 30 2011 10:01 GMT
#3
I'm not sure of how to interpret this blog... Is it serious ? If it's not serious is it supposed to be funny ?
Or am I missing something ?

edit : Also, there's not much Blizzard can do against drop hack, since it's not an in-game hack. Typical way of dropping someone is to flood his router with UDP packets, and Blizzard can't protect your router. You can block all UDP ports other than B.Net, Bittorrent and other services you commonly use. Other common ways to drop someone is using Teardrop / TCP SYN flood, are not always easy to block. Your router can already prevent some vulnerabilities, so make sure you are using the latest version of the firmware.
The only thing Blizzard could do is to remove every single P2P feature so that it become impossible for another user to get your IP through B.Net.

edited to add more details
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Specialist
Profile Blog Joined April 2007
United States803 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-06-30 10:02:56
June 30 2011 10:02 GMT
#4
On June 30 2011 19:01 endy wrote:
I'm not sure of how to interpret this blog... Is it serious ? If it's not serious is it supposed to be funny ?
Or am I missing something ?


this is real and true drop hack needs to be dropped.... idk why ppl do it
Onlinejaguar
Profile Joined April 2010
Australia2823 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-06-30 10:06:05
June 30 2011 10:05 GMT
#5
What is the drop hack? is it actually cheating or clever use of game mechanics?

Edit: oh nvm i thought you meant like drops in the game. not like DCing the opponent.
endy
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Switzerland8970 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-06-30 10:24:17
June 30 2011 10:07 GMT
#6
On June 30 2011 19:02 LiLu wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 30 2011 19:01 endy wrote:
I'm not sure of how to interpret this blog... Is it serious ? If it's not serious is it supposed to be funny ?
Or am I missing something ?


this is real and true drop hack needs to be dropped.... idk why ppl do it


So you're accusing Idra of using drop hack to win against sub-GM league players ? So once again, am I missing something, or that guy isn't the real Idra and is a guy who use a small case "L" to fake a capital "i" ?

edit : yeah I missed something (thanks explanation in post below), but OP was really confusing.
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Geordie
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
United Kingdom653 Posts
June 30 2011 10:10 GMT
#7
On June 30 2011 19:07 endy wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 30 2011 19:02 LiLu wrote:
On June 30 2011 19:01 endy wrote:
I'm not sure of how to interpret this blog... Is it serious ? If it's not serious is it supposed to be funny ?
Or am I missing something ?


this is real and true drop hack needs to be dropped.... idk why ppl do it


So you're accusing Idra of using drop hack to win against sub-GM league players ? So once again, am I missing something, or that guy isn't the real Idra and is a guy who use a small case "L" to fake a capital "i" ?


More than 1 person can have the same name on battlenet, the only thing that makes the users different is there character code. More than likely this is just a hacker who gave himself the tag EGidra to trick people into thinking that idra is going around hacking.
Ezkaton
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Japan416 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-06-30 10:18:36
June 30 2011 10:16 GMT
#8
Yep Its really really bad lately. I've actually stopped laddering on NA all together because i've been hitting so many

I just dont know what can be done about it tbh.
vvSiegvv
Profile Joined March 2010
United States364 Posts
June 30 2011 10:22 GMT
#9
On June 30 2011 19:07 endy wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 30 2011 19:02 LiLu wrote:
On June 30 2011 19:01 endy wrote:
I'm not sure of how to interpret this blog... Is it serious ? If it's not serious is it supposed to be funny ?
Or am I missing something ?


this is real and true drop hack needs to be dropped.... idk why ppl do it


So you're accusing Idra of using drop hack to win against sub-GM league players ? So once again, am I missing something, or that guy isn't the real Idra and is a guy who use a small case "L" to fake a capital "i" ?



Yes he's a fake, he's been seen on quite a few streams today, and on each one he's used a drophack. I saw him on Tyler's stream earlier today.
endy
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Switzerland8970 Posts
June 30 2011 10:23 GMT
#10
On June 30 2011 19:10 Geordie wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 30 2011 19:07 endy wrote:
On June 30 2011 19:02 LiLu wrote:
On June 30 2011 19:01 endy wrote:
I'm not sure of how to interpret this blog... Is it serious ? If it's not serious is it supposed to be funny ?
Or am I missing something ?


this is real and true drop hack needs to be dropped.... idk why ppl do it


So you're accusing Idra of using drop hack to win against sub-GM league players ? So once again, am I missing something, or that guy isn't the real Idra and is a guy who use a small case "L" to fake a capital "i" ?


More than 1 person can have the same name on battlenet, the only thing that makes the users different is there character code. More than likely this is just a hacker who gave himself the tag EGidra to trick people into thinking that idra is going around hacking.


Oh I see, in that case why is OP providing user names, it's really confusing when he says he got dropped twice by EGIdra :/

Thank you for the explanation though.
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Mikilatov
Profile Blog Joined May 2008
United States3897 Posts
June 30 2011 10:38 GMT
#11
It'd be nice if you made a note in your OP about the fact that this isn't the real Idra, to prevent any sort of confusion.
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JediGamer
Profile Joined August 2010
United States656 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-06-30 10:45:09
June 30 2011 10:44 GMT
#12
jebacca has a crazy drophack that just froze up my computer so bad i had to quit.
http://www.z33k.com/starcraft2/coach/sc2coaching Tastosis Approved Coaching
Creek
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
United States177 Posts
June 30 2011 10:45 GMT
#13
On June 30 2011 19:01 endy wrote:
I'm not sure of how to interpret this blog... Is it serious ? If it's not serious is it supposed to be funny ?
Or am I missing something ?

edit : Also, there's not much Blizzard can do against drop hack, since it's not an in-game hack. You have to protect yourself better. Typical way of dropping someone is to spam his router with UDP packets, don't expect Blizzard to protect your router...
The only thing Blizzard could do is to remove every single P2P feature so that it become impossible for another user to get your IP through B.Net.


Drop hack is not a mass-packet DoS style attack.
It's exploiting starcraft 2, Blizzard CAN fix it.
T.O.P. *
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Hong Kong4685 Posts
June 30 2011 10:50 GMT
#14
A fake PiQLiQ just drophacked me...
Oracle comes in, Scvs go down, never a miscommunication.
wonderwall
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
New Zealand695 Posts
June 30 2011 10:54 GMT
#15
It works like a seesaw. Normally its completely level and there's a barely noticeable portion of users that drophack. Occasionally a brand new hack comes out and the balance tips in favour of the hackers. Then Blizzard makes some revisions to Warden and pushes down on their end and equilibrium comes back.
ThisIsJimmy
Profile Joined July 2004
United States546 Posts
June 30 2011 10:55 GMT
#16
IBGJebacca hack like fucks up your computer slowly until you have to just surrender. What a waste of everyones time
Twitter @_ThisIsJimmy_
endy
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Switzerland8970 Posts
June 30 2011 10:58 GMT
#17
On June 30 2011 19:45 Creek wrote:
Drop hack is not a mass-packet DoS style attack.
It's exploiting starcraft 2, Blizzard CAN fix it.


What do you mean by exploiting SC2? Whatever Blizzard can try to fix if you have the guy's IP you can still flood his router.

As I said, if every P2P feature in SC2 is disabled, it's gonna be a lot harder to get your opponent's IP.
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deathly rat
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
United Kingdom911 Posts
June 30 2011 11:01 GMT
#18
I just want to point out that what happened in Call of Duty Black Ops is that a very few people learnt about dashboarding (like drop hacking), then people complained on forums so more people got to know about dashboarding and the problem got worse and worse.

I'm not saying there shouldn't be a thread on it, but maybe someone on TL can take it upon themselves to manage the situation.
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Specialist
Profile Blog Joined April 2007
United States803 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-06-30 11:05:31
June 30 2011 11:05 GMT
#19
another drop hacker: polasja ... it's insane i quit for a while now
Specialist
Profile Blog Joined April 2007
United States803 Posts
June 30 2011 11:11 GMT
#20
I hope blizzard implement a ladder system like ICCUP from this experience...
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