Hack on Starcraft II - Page 12

On May 11 2011 00:56 DeamonMachine wrote:
On the general topic of hackers.. what I don't understand is

Why?

I mean, I know you can go home to you friends and say you're #1 in grandmasters, but other than that', what is the point? You get a bad reputation, no one will respect you again if they figure out your real life information. Maybe props in the hacker community?

I mean, you can't get sponsors, there's generally no way to advance in life or anything by doing this. At least bronze level players who actually play the game can say that they tried and learned something, or just had fun in general.

Just a thought.

On May 11 2011 06:43 Boyo wrote:
chucknorris on EU=PiLLaGe on NA? This guy running multiple comps or something?

On May 11 2011 06:46 tnud wrote:

There are a TON of chucknorris, 80% of them have no losses. I guess many of these are guest accounts for the hacker to try his stuff on.

On May 11 2011 06:56 TheBrofessor wrote:



Are they all in Masters? Remember that everyone's ratio in diamond and below shows up as 100% because the losses aren't shown anymore.

On May 11 2011 06:58 whiterabbit wrote:
I really would like to hear from Blizzard why they need so much time to ban a clearly a 100% hacker. You can't have more evidences then this and I guess there are like tons of reports for his hacking accounts. He is seriously ruining games for bunch of GM players on two different servers.

If he got banned 1 day after this hacking it still would've been slow response, but this is just... unacceptable and stupid.

I am always amazed how Blizzard manages to show with "little things" how they kinda don't care (by care I mean honest and helpful care) for people who made them all rich.

P.S.
As I understand this guy didn't release this hack publicly so I wouldn't be surprised that he thinks (by some weird logic) he is helping Blizzard.

And at the end of the day he kinda really does, showing them serious vulnerabilities they will patch. I bet there are tons of other smart and skillful people out there who can make this same hack at any moment and release it publicly - imagine ladder when every trollkid has this hack? Not cool. But if he keeps doing this every day Blizzard won't have choice, they will invest time and resources to fix that exploit.

I am not into programming and stuff but maybe he is not banned yet because Blizzard needs more info from his ladder hacking to understand and find fix for it.

On May 11 2011 07:13 ZasZ. wrote:
On an aside, I really hope Blizzard adopts the stance where hacking will cause them to purge your account of all games (i.e. BW/WC3/WoW etc.).

On May 11 2011 07:13 ZasZ. wrote:


Yeah it could be that Blizzard doesn't care about banning hackers...

OR

They want to collect as many accounts and as much information about hacks before they do a massive sweep (which has always been how they ban hackers). Banning this guy and this guy alone will probably A) Cause him to get another account and B) Release his hack to the masses making it 10x harder to control.

If they can figure out a way to preemptively shut it down while collecting a bunch of accounts that are guilty of maphacking/drophacking/whatever, they can blow through and purge the servers in one big burst and force most of the hackers to start from scratch.

Ever since maphack in D2 Blizzard has made giant purges once or twice a year instead of banning hackers as they come up. You can trust that they have their own software as well as the hack report email people use to keep track of offenders.

On an aside, I really hope Blizzard adopts the stance where hacking will cause them to purge your account of all games (i.e. BW/WC3/WoW etc.).

On May 11 2011 07:23 Zerker wrote:
my game crashed 4 games in a row, cant play ladder too many hackers what do?