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Speaking about IP bans, don't IPs change sometimes for people? If so how does an IP ban do its job?
Tuesday, 28-Aug-12 00:17:06 UTC from web-
@techdisk42 In that case, it doesn't. :p
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@minti cause I know my public IP changes whenever I restart my modem. So...
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@techdisk42 Yeah mine too. Dynamic IPs are the bane of any web-based banning system cause it's literally unavoidable without masking it.
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@minti why do we even bother...
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@minti I almost want to include some tiny flash object on the page to capture peoples MAC addresses and pass them to PHP so I can have a full ban experience
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@ceruleanspark but I know how to spoof that too... its harder, but still.
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@ceruleanspark Can Flash even capture mac addresses? If so, that's.. kinda scary.
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@ceruleanspark besides. *disables flash*
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@minti Flash can do a hell of a lot of stuff you might well think shouldn't be accessible from browsers.
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@techdisk42 @purple The troublemakers we get here aren't hardened /b/tard raiders or network experts. They're typically butthurt children mad that we have rules and staff who enforce them.
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@techdisk42 I'm sure there's something you can do, like causing the flash to populate a hidden field that's required for the message form to submit specifically to spite iOS users and flashblockers.
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@minti How do you think Habbo Hotel permabans /b/tards?
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@ceruleanspark well that would just plain suck.
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@bitshift Eh. Surprising.
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@ceruleanspark By having actually active moderators, unlike most games? *shrug*
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@ceruleanspark well that would just plain suck.
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@minti How do you think they made the bans /stick/? They have a tier of ban that is maintained even if you /switch OSes within the same machine/
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@ceruleanspark Weird, either masking or hwid banning could do that.
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@techdisk42 Fortunately we don't really have enough persistent troublemakers to make that worth the effort it'd take to implement.
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