[Drew]

I was talking to a guy with whom I am friends that works for a local networking company. We were discussing malicious hackers and such and I mentioned to him that I own a game server and we have a serious problem with people masking their IPs to get past our security. So anyway, he tells me that there is open-source software being released by a small company on the east coast (I can't recall the name) which, if you have a grouping of IPs with times (the grouping nullifies using proxies to mask; thank you AutoKick logs), will allow you to obtain a person's MAC address. Now, from my understanding, most broadband services require you to maintain a specific MAC address in order to be connected to the internet, and it has to go through the ISP itself to be changed. So obviously the implications, if this is true, are quite large. Hopefully if it is true, it can be quickly adapted into our community and used to ban the lot of the MPC lamers. Finally.

[DeadBolt]

Sounds good man. You were right about the MaC address having to stay the same. If it changes you have to call your ISP and get it re-provisioned, or thats how it is with my IsP. This will cut down on people masking ips, cuz I dont think people are going to go out of their way that much to do all that stuff. And is it even possible to change your MAC address?

[Drew]

Yeah, through firmware on your cable/dsl modem if you know how to access it (same interface ppl use to uncap their cable modems and steal my bandwidth). But yeah, I had to do it because my ISP is retarded.

[DeadBolt]

Ohh i see. Well if hackers are that dedicated to breaking into servers, that is so pathetic. But this is will be a good step for stopping them.