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Primary This Rifter
Imperial Academy
Amarr Empire
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Posted - 2013.03.15 07:52:00 -
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Malifae wrote:By design, the Bit Torrent protocol exposes the IP address of every peer to which you send or receive data, regardless of any encryption. Sounds like a great mechanism for someone to compile a database of IP addresses of known EVE players. I can't imagine anyone would ever do something nefarious with that information.
Yeah.
What exactly do you expect someone to do with your IP address?
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Primary This Rifter
Imperial Academy
Amarr Empire
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Posted - 2013.03.15 18:27:00 -
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Wodensun wrote:Primary This Rifter wrote:Malifae wrote:By design, the Bit Torrent protocol exposes the IP address of every peer to which you send or receive data, regardless of any encryption. Sounds like a great mechanism for someone to compile a database of IP addresses of known EVE players. I can't imagine anyone would ever do something nefarious with that information.
Yeah. What exactly do you expect someone to do with your IP address? DoS. DDoS. Exploiting your Router/Modem. Possibly Man in the Middle attacks. Messing with your EvE client since we know what ports it listens on. I might be able to think of more but i'd need to run a nmap vs your IP first... Which incidentally was handed to me by CCP...
None of which anyone on the internet who was determined to exploit couldn't exploit without using a bittorrent client.
My point is that the torrent doesn't provide any vulnerabilities that aren't already there.
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Primary This Rifter
Imperial Academy
Amarr Empire
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Posted - 2013.03.16 08:36:00 -
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Sierra Mackenzie wrote:So glad you're dedicating programming time to improving the launcher than improving the actual game. Instead of improving the experience for existing players, they're improving it to draw in new players. Why else would they need to improve Steam integration?
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Edit: Also, all of the tinfoil hat wearers in this thread crack me up. Oh noes, BitTorrent is going to eat my computer and malicious users are going to have my IP! Whatever shall I do!?
Tinfoil accuser should look in the mirror. CCP is perfectly capable of devoting developer resources to several areas of the game at once, including things like the launcher.
And as for improving the experience for existing players, the devblog and subsequent posts indicated an issue with the current downloader implementation where if a download was interrupted, sometimes the entire installation would be corrupted. Many EVE players have had this problem before and while I personally haven't I can imagine it's extremely frustrating. Adding a bittorrent protocol would prevent this from happening for the majority of players.
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