Hackers in eRepublik
Adam Sutler
My Fellow Canadians,
Early this morning, several high profile accounts including those of the U.S. President were hacked. It does not look as though much in the way of gold was stolen, but I not willing to take a risk if eCanada is hacked as well.
In order to prevent a catestrophic loss of Gold to a Hacker attack, I've split the Canadian Gold Reserves up amongst several smaller S.O.s as well as within the Treasury itself. If, heaven forbid, we are hacked, we will still retain a large quantity of our Gold. The Cabinet has been informed of the exact whereabouts and quantity of this gold.
Until the next time, God Keep our Land Glorious and Free, and as always,
England Prevails!
Comments
Excellent idea - but what I am wondering is how are these hackers getting onto people\'s profiles? If they have some sort of coding ability or program that allows them to access peoples\' profiles couldn\'t determined hackers get into all the S.Os that are set up?
Its just like a lockdown in school.
You hope that by splitting and keeping kids out of sight, then they will just be to much of a hassle to go after.
Same with this:
We divide the money, keep it out of sight and make it a general pain in the ass for a hacker to take it.
Hope that helps, just think of this as a lockdown procedure and the hacker is a gunman.
Or you could just make sure that idiots who choose insecure passwords don\'t get into positions of power.
Well first I think it is important to know how the hackers are hacking - are the exploiting insecure passwords, manipulating the coding of the game manually to let them in, or do they have some sort of program that figures out passwords.
In the case of the third I would think this plan would fail, but at least its a start.
If it is the third case, we\'d be screwed either way. In this case they\'d have to first figure out how many accounts have recieved the money, which accounts they are, and how to break into them. If they hack into the only obvious account, (mine) the worst they would be able to secure is the gold in our treasury, leaving our stores of CAD and the vast majority of our Gold safe.
And now I\'m screwed Ive been locked out of My S.O. Who knows what is going to happen I ask the Admin to please help me with this issue. I don\'t think this is to gain gold or money its more on the lines trying to bring the game down and they are doing a pretty good job at this. I knew that the idea of security codes will do no good. And my friend in the USA emailed me and said hes locked out of his. Now the ass holes are changing passwords. Whoever theses assholes are in order to prevent them from hacking anyone else everyone should change their passwords and not tell anyone. Don\'t use your birthday or social. Use a combinations of numbers and letters to throw off would be hackers.
As most IT security professionals would tell you, using an obvious password and having someone figure it out is not \'being hacked\' - it\'s one person taking advantage of another\'s foolishness. I never choose a password shorter than eight characters unless forced, and I almost always choose a combination of letters, numbers, and symbols.
As an example, one could use \'Mykitty!$aw3som3\' and that would be pretty damn difficult to guess.
I suspect that the problem is simple passwords.
But matrix didn\'t use simple passwords. *cries* it was a good one... This is retarded I want my company back.
If they\'re using a code cant the admins track it? it would be the same for all the accounts hacked, so it should be easy to follow... But for now I like Adams course of action.
How do i join the canadian rangers/what are the requirements?
Contact Minister of National Defence Dascoo, and he will assign you to the Rangers platoon.
Im with the Csd and i know i shouldn\'t be saying this but this could be one of the reasons to vote for you mr president.
That is outrageous, The President is an honorable man and wouldn\'t think of harming this game or any of its players, especially if they are in his own country.
Rearden what are you talking about? Myers just commented President Sutler not insult him. Read carefully next time.