Good job unknown!

 

Aubrey, please remove the see IP feature.

Hmmm...I don't think this is QUITE as serious as you make it out to be. Yes, IP addresses can be tracked, but I think it's accuracy only goes to a certain extent. I asked Flyclub to do an IP track on me, it turned out a state over in a large city. I don't know what method he used, or if there are more accurate ways, I assume there are. I do not think Aubrey is that naive, if he thought there was an issue, he probably would not have added it. If I recall, only the host can see the correct IP the player has, and if you are that worried about it, you can get a fake IP.

Yes, you can do this, depending on the IP, but when you really think about it, the IP doesn't do much, for it is not 100% accurate.

 

I'm guessing Aubrey "fixed" them, because they do not read perfect locations, some do, but most don't.

if the IP feature is removed, i wanna know who the hell im talking to. i dont mean their names and address, i mean i wanna know what names they use, i wanna know when they use other peoples names, even in 1.9.4 it confuses people even without the parenthesis. i want a friend list as well as a block list and i want an individual block button on each persons name so i can block them from my servers. i dont want to play blindly and i dont want be taken advantage of more than i have been already. 

Unknown;

 

I appreciate your concerns, but I don't think you are rationally evaluating the security tradeoffs of the "show IPs" feature.

 

In order to find the street level address of someone's computer based upon their IP address, you will nearly always need to get a court order to force their ISP to give you the information.

 

Thus, being able to see the IP addresses of other players is a security feature - as it allows you to determine to some degree who you are playing with, and report them to their ISP if they are being unruly.

 

Your IP address is already being shared every time you send an email or browse a webpage. If that bothers you, I highly suggest that you learn about high anonymity proxy services.

 

I am certainly open to correction - I would be glad to remove the feature if someone can demonstrate why it does more harm than good - but it looks to me like removing this feature would make the Mars Explorer community less resilient against bad players.

 

 

Babag;

 

Ban lists administrated by the server host are in the works...

 

 

 

All the best,

 

-Aubrey

I agree that it is dagerus to have the ip address thingie but like Baba said i kinda want to know if i am talkin to a friend or a cloner!

ok really all i wanted was the IP taken off bcuz reasons im dont wanna post bcuz i might get myself killed warning others, but anyways, this is exactly how police find criminals online, + they could read the invisible numbers on ur cars (i bet u guys didn't know that lol) i dont mind having it at the start of the game and i know u meant for it to be for a good reason, and people really want to know who they r talking to but...... this game is not safe i must say..... I MAY QUIT PLAYING THIS GAME!!!!!!!!!!!! (this is not a threat to any1 F.Y.I.)

Hey guys he's just giving it to us straight.  I like honesty I already knew all that stuff brah but come on he's just trying to help.

OK you have one BAD idea on what an IP is, ips are not always accurate, and are only as precise as the city. Also no stalker in their right mind would just pop up and point a gun, they are far more sneaky and get you to come to them by your own will. this is why you never give out personal information, always assume they know your city, however they can not tell where your house is, and city is not always correct.

 

 

Ip addresses can be used to track the bad guys as well, and even report them, their advantage is also yours.

yes i just said that thnk u Fly Club!!! lol

BAM! Everyone should see this one

errrrr... is that a $300.00 Lego set for your miniphoto? :D

This should be stickied.

One person was killed because someone stalked them on MySpace.

 

More than 100 people die from car crashes every day in the US.

 

Do you drive? Probably.

 

It takes a lot more than an IP adress for someone to pop up next to you with a gun and kill you. The respect for safety is appreciated, but revealing an IP address is not that much of a danger.

I dont know Gub, more and more hackers are appearing here on mars.

Gubby!!

Compromise time: I'll put a comment on Dude's post with the link to this one.

@Lamp: Please don't bam old posts for such useless reasons.

I have tried IP tracking myself, I just about got the timezone right.

 

What Aubrey said is true. Obviously.

 

If you're paranoid, you can always change your IP... etcetera... and if someone wanted to kill you that bad, I guess they'd track your phone - a simple virus will turn your gps on and send your position to someone. Or pay off someone at Google. blah blah blah....

 

If I knew the name of a computer (screenshots and videos will tell me that) and I was a hacker, (so I could find their pass out) I could log into it from anywhere on the globe.

Seriously - I could trip and break my skull open while texting. Someone could decide I'm a threat to US security and put the Impossible Mission Force on my tail. Stop living in the world of Batman, please.

 

And a note - any site you visit can also find out your IP. How many websites did you visit in the past five minutes????

this is something i addressed two years ago but it was ahead of its time i suppose. i definitely hope this gets implemented in syn3h or mars explorer 3. its very dangerous, im surprised it hasnt been changed yet. the whole security system of this game is pretty weak right now as eric said, passwords are a text file and its just plain weak!

 

great thought here, i made this a sticky so that it will hopefully draw much needed attention and get fixed soon! (i cant help it if my fellow mods have different opinions and un-sticky it....)

 

all the best,

 

-Phen

"Apperently there is a lot of confusion on what someone can do if they have your IP address. Well, they may be able to get a general area on where you live, but other than that they can not do anything as long as you are relatively secure. As long as you are behind a router, have a fire wall, or even anti-spy ware will make you safe, as well as a lot of other things. The only people who would take the time to crack any of that is in it for the money, and a LOT of money since it's illegal. (If they are this good and dedicated, they don't even NEED your IP address to hack you!) There is no reason to be paranoid that somebody knows your IP address. 

If someone knows you're IP address, it is impossible for them to hack you."

 

-Quote from Abister...