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CCP Fallout
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Posted - 2009.02.10 16:04:00 -
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CCP Lilith, Director of Customer Support, has just published a new blog for your perusal. Researched and composed by three different teams, "War makes thieves and peace hangs them" is an extremely extensive report on the recent POS Exploit. CCP Pleognost details how POS works and how the bug entered the game (and was removed). CCP Diagoras and CCP Dr.EyjoG detail the effects the exploit had on the economy, and Grimmi outlines how customer support handled previous reports and the current exploiters.
This extremely important blog should be read by everyone with a vested interest in this exploit, however, we do ask that you post your responses responsibly.
Fallout
Associate Community Manager
CCP Hf, EVE Online
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CCP Diagoras
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Posted - 2009.02.10 16:57:00 -
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 Originally by: teji
Nothing about any drug reactions being exploited?
Also, less t2 bpos in the game the better. Nice devblog.
Booster materials were also produced using this, as mentioned in the blog. When looking at market impact we decided to focus on the moon materials in the blog, as that was what affected the most number of players by quite some margin.
There were 13 reactors in an exploited state that were producing booster materials.
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Posted - 2009.02.10 17:10:00 -
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Originally by: Dolgozo Lany
Were you able to retrieve all information about reactors which were not in the bugged status at the moment of your data analysis, only prior to the analysis?
E.g.: Corporations stopping and dismantling reactors in this bugged status in within that week, when the exploit report fell into the 'cracks'.
After discovering the exploit, we checked a recent database backup (if I recall correctly, it was less than a week old at the time) to get a full list. We have also checked older backups when we were working out how long it had been going on for. So, it isn't possible for people to have gotten away with this by taking their starbases down as soon as they heard it had been discovered. |
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Posted - 2009.02.10 17:24:00 -
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Originally by: Demeterus
That is not the same as 134 accounts. A user can of course have multiple accounts. Are there any numbers on how many accounts were banned?
Sorry for the mix up - this does indeed mean 134 accounts.
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CCP Fallout
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Posted - 2009.02.10 17:28:00 -
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Originally by: GM Grimmi
Originally by: Demeterus
That is not the same as 134 accounts. A user can of course have multiple accounts. Are there any numbers on how many accounts were banned?
Sorry for the mix up - this does indeed mean 134 accounts.
We've updated the blog to accurately reflect the type of bans that were issued. |
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CCP Fallout
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Posted - 2009.02.10 22:27:00 -
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Originally by: Ebodhisatva
Looking at the Cruise Missile launcher II in Figure 13 shows that though prices increased somewhat in December, they soon decreased again.
Figure 13 is not there?
that should have read "11." I've corrected it. Thanks :) |
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Posted - 2009.02.10 23:52:00 -
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Cleaned.
Please remember to post with respect towards fellow players. |
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Posted - 2009.02.11 09:53:00 -
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Originally by: Ralitge boyter
One thing that I seem to miss here is a peer code review. I mean if you had a single person looking at this code with the idea of trying to find a free ride (not so much nice comments and correct if/for statments etc. Then you would have to be employing the blind or the totaly stupid to not have seen the potential for an exploit here.
The code involved predates our current code-review practices by quite a while. New code (or rewritten code) is peer-reviewed these days. The fix was peer reviewed multiple times before it went out, specifically for the reasons you state.
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CCP Fallout
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Posted - 2009.02.11 16:51:00 -
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Originally by: Sade Onyx
I expect this issue has put a lot of strain on resources as so many people were involved in this blog. But can we now whip some dev's into giving us more blogs on Apochtypha? Its on the test server but no more blog's since QQ :(
Off topic, but I will have a ton of surprises for you coming within oh... soon :D
Fallout
Associate Community Manager
CCP Hf, EVE Online
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