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malaire
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Posted - 2011.09.20 15:38:00 -
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Thomas Alva Edison wrote:Is there a setting from the API where i can disable a such thing ?
Employment history of each character is public information. If the name of the character can be found somewhere, then it can be linked to its corporation(s).
To keep your character name private:
- Do not post on forums
- Do not appear on any killboard
- Do not buy/sell anything on market
- Do not show up in Local anywhere
- Do not chat with anyone in EVE
- Do not send evemail to anyone
- ...
Whenever you do any of the above, someone can see your character name, and that person can submit it to sites like http://evewho.com. I remember one site which gave some reward for each new character submitted there, I don't know if http://evewho.com does this also.
So in short, there is no real way to keep your character name and its corporation(s) private.
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malaire
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Posted - 2011.09.20 16:00:00 -
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Practical example how this might be done:
1) get few character names (e.g. malaire, Miilla, Adrenaline Reaper)
2) use API to get characterIDs of those character (e.g. this link for those 3 characters)
*) malaire = 1628541932, Miilla = 1365934490, Adrenaline Reaper = 916738779
4) use those IDs to get character information (malaire info, Miilla info, Adrenaline Reaper info)
5) try other characterIDs close to those you know to find unknown characters: 916738780, 916738781, 916738782 (no luck here, all of these are invalid IDs)
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malaire
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Posted - 2011.09.20 16:02:00 -
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Othran wrote:I think this requires fixing. Its ludicrous that if you can present a user ID and no key then you get the characters on that account returned.
Its beyond ludicrous in fact - its incompetence.
It doesn't work like that, see my example above. You can just get information for single character (not account) when you guess characterID of that character.
Also, that characterID is NOT same as userID used with old API keys.
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malaire
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Posted - 2011.09.20 17:31:00 -
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Tippia wrote:For instance, if you do not know that a character exists, you cannot find it in-game nor can you discover who's in those "unknown" corp slots; using the charID and API calls, you can discover its existence and tie it back to the corp that way.
You can find it in-game, you can search by partial character name and try to find there "hidden" characters.
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malaire
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Posted - 2011.09.20 17:36:00 -
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Miilla wrote:This guy is bascially MACROING :)
So what? Macroing outside EVE Client, using external applications and API, is allowed.
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malaire
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Posted - 2011.09.20 17:46:00 -
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Othran wrote:Ummm no. As I said earlier I have a character who has never done anything. No information was "posted publically" at all.
Has he ever said anything in Local? Is he visible in Local?
If yes, then someone might've spotted him and posted to website like evewho.
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malaire
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Posted - 2011.09.20 17:59:00 -
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Other site, EVE Central Intelligence, collected 3.9 million valid characterIDs without using characterID guessing.
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malaire
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Posted - 2011.09.20 18:19:00 -
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Othran wrote:Miilla wrote:How about this for an idea, NO API INFO without a valid KEY. Period. NOTHING; absolutely ZERO output.
If they have a valid reason to query the API, they would have a key.
Agreed. For any character-specific query a key should be mandatory.
What would it change? Just create any key and use it to obtain information about all the characters whose charaterID you know.
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malaire
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Posted - 2011.09.20 18:27:00 -
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Squizz Caphinator wrote:I am NOT scraping the API.
So what does this mean then (I added underlining)
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All numbers based on known characters and may differ from in game values. All characters found by scavenging killboards, eve-search, and finding holes in character id sequence data and filling them.
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malaire
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Posted - 2011.09.20 18:41:00 -
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Squizz Caphinator wrote:malaire wrote:Squizz Caphinator wrote:I am NOT scraping the API. So what does this mean then (I added underlining) Quote:
All numbers based on known characters and may differ from in game values. All characters found by scavenging killboards, eve-search, and finding holes in character id sequence data and filling them.
I have two characters ID's, 1 and 3. I know with absolute certainty that 2 is a character id. I fetch it. Pretty simple really :)
How do you know with absolute certainty that 2 is characterID, if you have never seen that characterID anywhere? Even if it might seem certain that it really is characterID, you really are doing API scraping by checking it if you have never seen it anywhere before.
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malaire
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Posted - 2011.09.20 18:51:00 -
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EDIT: removed my alarmist question about EVEMon. I just misread. 
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malaire
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Posted - 2011.09.21 08:05:00 -
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Simetraz wrote:By the way I find it interesting that it is illegal to list NPC corp members but not player corps.
Why would it be illegal? I believe both are allowed.
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