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Posted - 2016.04.09 20:24:44 -
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Masao Kurata wrote:CCP Quant wrote:Masao Kurata wrote:
Excuse me? Some people like to keep certain kills and losses secret, this is a big change in policy.
We excluded characterID for that purpose. If that is still giving away too much info we could move(from corporationID as the lowest identifier) up to allianceID, but yeah this sentiment is the reason kills aren't accessible in bulk through CREST. However, one of the biggest arguments for hiding kills has been to hide fitting, these kill logs don't show fitting. Also, it's only PVP kills where a player character kills a player character. Okay, that was a knee jerk reaction. Upon actually reviewing the columns included and considering the matter, this level of data is.... mostly fine? It is possible in some cases to trivially get the kill hash from the data (when both the victim and killers are in one or two man corporations), and getting a range of possible kill ids based on the timestamp is easy, providing enough information to query public CREST for the full kill details. I imagine that if one were to run a script over the kills querying on the assumption that a CEO killed a CEO, that alone would yield many killmails previously not pushed to any killboards.
Having thought about this for some time, this really should be considered. For the longest time it has been pounded into our heads to keep an active API key for the kill boards. "If you ever want to be recruited by a big PVP group, then you got to have a nice looking killboard!" Or just killboard bragging rights, what not. This gives me my own knee jerk reaction to blindly keep an API killboard without even thinking of the consequence. But historically, for myself, more than anything else, killboard data has been my #1 go to source for intel. Who do people fly with? what do they fit? What is there most active systems that they commonly patrol?
This prompted me to two ations.
1) Delete my own killboard api key!
2) Wonder if maybe CCP should consider a checkmark in the API section to allow your account to be included into such broad sweeping potential intel holes.
P.S.
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