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RE: PBEM files hacked
Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2016 12:25 pm
by crsutton
Sorry, you need not worry about this. Very little cheating that I have seen in my ten years here. To be honest, I am little worried about someone hacking my porn collection. But not my AE password......[8|]
RE: PBEM files hacked
Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2016 12:40 pm
by BillBrown
ORIGINAL: crsutton
Sorry, you need not worry about this. Very little cheating that I have seen in my ten years here. To be honest, I am little worried about someone hacking my porn collection. But not my AE password......[8|]
Be careful around the Gorn, he likes human porn. [:)]
RE: PBEM files hacked
Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2016 12:46 pm
by Admiral DadMan
ORIGINAL: BillBrown
ORIGINAL: crsutton
Sorry, you need not worry about this. Very little cheating that I have seen in my ten years here. To be honest, I am little worried about someone hacking my porn collection. But not my AE password......[8|]
Be careful around the Gorn, he likes human porn. [:)]
Because Gorn porn is easy to follow. [8|]
RE: PBEM files hacked
Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2016 1:05 pm
by btd64
ORIGINAL: Admiral DadMan
ORIGINAL: BillBrown
ORIGINAL: crsutton
Sorry, you need not worry about this. Very little cheating that I have seen in my ten years here. To be honest, I am little worried about someone hacking my porn collection. But not my AE password......[8|]
Be careful around the Gorn, he likes human porn. [:)]
Because Gorn porn is easy to follow. [8|]
I think the Gorn uses human porn as a menu.[:D]....GP
RE: PBEM files hacked
Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2016 2:59 pm
by geofflambert
ORIGINAL: JockJimmy
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HEIL HITLER.
Is this a ref. to one of the tricks that ULTRA used when breaking enigma? (That the Germasns often signed off using this tag.)
That's a winner!
RE: PBEM files hacked
Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2016 3:12 pm
by geofflambert
The next clue was going to be coded: "You have to think like Khan Noonian Singh" - making the Khan/Benedict/Alan connection. That would have thrown some people off because of Spock saying "He's displaying two dimensional thinking" from the Ricardo Montalban version.
RE: PBEM files hacked
Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2016 3:24 pm
by geofflambert
The next clue might have been "Don't go tearing up the cucumber patch"
RE: PBEM files hacked
Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2016 3:24 pm
by geofflambert
ORIGINAL: zuluhour
This might work on scales
So, did you get your money back? [:'(]
RE: PBEM files hacked
Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2016 3:27 pm
by geofflambert
That looks like Ghengis Khan's helmet.
RE: PBEM files hacked
Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2016 3:36 pm
by geofflambert
This guy used one. Look at all his hair!
RE: PBEM files hacked
Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2016 3:40 pm
by geofflambert
It worked for this guy too. He got thick, healthy hare in just 30 days.
RE: PBEM files hacked
Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2016 9:17 pm
by Marshall
We can close this thread [:D]
Result is that they can hack the Pentagon, so they can hack a file, but the thread I read was a very old one and not applicable to the current game.
Curiosity and apprehension has been satisfied.
Tips to avoid hacks where: do not play Chinese players, or Russians (really people! I had a great PBEM game with a Russian) and not use single character passwords.
And Devs can redeem lost passwords, as they have the source code.
Case closed for me.
RE: PBEM files hacked
Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2018 8:14 am
by ericv
It is rather easy to get the others players password. It can be done in a couple of minutes.
RE: PBEM files hacked
Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2018 1:06 pm
by Canoerebel
Many PBEM players even exchange passwords purposefully. Then, if one receives a turn that wasn't properly advanced by his opponent, he can open the turn, advance it, and then run it.
In my recent game with John III, he had my password for the final 2.5 years of the game. I think I had his, too, somewhere in my email files.
Most opponents become close friends. There is a deep and abiding mutual respect. Often there is affection, comradeship, and loyalty.
RE: PBEM files hacked
Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2018 1:10 pm
by BBfanboy
ORIGINAL: ericv
It is rather easy to get the others players password. It can be done in a couple of minutes.
And just why did you think it necessary to resurrect a dead thread?
RE: PBEM files hacked
Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2018 1:30 pm
by Lecivius
ORIGINAL: BBfanboy
ORIGINAL: ericv
It is rather easy to get the others players password. It can be done in a couple of minutes.
And just why did you think it necessary to resurrect a dead thread?
I have to admit, I was curious as to this as well.
RE: PBEM files hacked
Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2018 1:58 pm
by witpqs
ORIGINAL: Lecivius
ORIGINAL: BBfanboy
ORIGINAL: ericv
It is rather easy to get the others players password. It can be done in a couple of minutes.
And just why did you think it necessary to resurrect a dead thread?
I have to admit, I was curious as to this as well.
A form of necrophilia?
RE: PBEM files hacked
Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2018 1:58 pm
by btd64
ORIGINAL: Lecivius
ORIGINAL: BBfanboy
ORIGINAL: ericv
It is rather easy to get the others players password. It can be done in a couple of minutes.
And just why did you think it necessary to resurrect a dead thread?
I have to admit, I was curious as to this as well.
Yeah, me too. Who would want to HACK a password? And then have to nerve to play the game?....GP
RE: PBEM files hacked
Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2018 2:08 pm
by witpqs
ORIGINAL: btd64
ORIGINAL: Lecivius
ORIGINAL: BBfanboy
And just why did you think it necessary to resurrect a dead thread?
I have to admit, I was curious as to this as well.
Yeah, me too. Who would want to HACK a password? And then have to nerve to play the game?....GP
A long time ago - I forget which year it was - there was a WITP (AE or plain I don't recall either) AAR on a German game forum called to our attention here on this forum where this Allied player was absolutely cleaning up. IIRC he had done so in prior games as well. To make a long story short, it was found (and I guess he eventually admitted) that he used software development and diagnostics tools to hack the game in progress (whether in memory or in save format on disk I don't know). Used it to jack up stats of various things, so it was really like his opponent was playing against the space invaders who had warp technology.
RE: PBEM files hacked
Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2018 2:17 pm
by btd64
ORIGINAL: witpqs
ORIGINAL: btd64
ORIGINAL: Lecivius
I have to admit, I was curious as to this as well.
Yeah, me too. Who would want to HACK a password? And then have to nerve to play the game?....GP
A long time ago - I forget which year it was - there was a WITP (AE or plain I don't recall either) AAR on a German game forum called to our attention here on this forum where this Allied player was absolutely cleaning up. IIRC he had done so in prior games as well. To make a long story short, it was found (and I guess he eventually admitted) that he used software development and diagnostics tools to hack the game in progress (whether in memory or in save format on disk I don't know). Used it to jack up stats of various things, so it was really like his opponent was playing against the space invaders who had warp technology.
Takes balls....GP