[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.