Abuse of Multiple Accounts (REMINDER)

Just a kind reminder to all new members that you are only allowed ONE (1) account here at DGEmu.

I just was forced to block a whole ISP and it's clients from visiting DGEmu ever again due to a MASSIVE abuse by someone creating multiple accounts.

From now on you will not be able to use "T-Mobile USA" (tmodns.net) to view DGEmu, we have had about 12 members before register with an IP Address from T-Mobile USA and only 2 of them visited us on more then one occasion, but they haven't used their accounts since October 2012. So sorry to those 2 members and anyone else who uses T-Mobile USA.

The whole ISP needed to be blocked as someone registered at least 1 account for just about EVERY single IP Address that T-Mobile USA provides.

So please don't be a douche and ruin this site for others, be responsible and only create 1 account! If you have any questions ask in the forums or contact a Staff Member.

Thank you.

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deeluna (04/04/2013 06:50PM)

my only comment for this is how useless it is to ban by IP. All that is going to do is provoke the person or persons into using proxies to get in to abuse multiple accounts. I have always loved using MAC address bans. much more effective and makes it more expensive for the cheater as they either need to buy new hardware to send new MAC information or use cheats to send fake info instead. basically turns it into punishing the individual instead of punishing an entire ISP.

Channel28 (04/05/2013 11:03AM)

Good suggestion but I don't think IPB records the MAC address, or at least the only one visible to me is the IP Address .....

Chiri Kitsu (04/05/2013 02:46PM)

Well, to add a comment to this:

It is impossible for the server side to see a MAC address over the Internet.

The physical hardware MAC of a computer is used to determined up to the point of your closest router, which then moves out over to the ISP, and then over the Internet.

In reality, the last MAC address to reach your ISP's switches and routers is either your router's MAC (if you own any router) or your PC's MAC (If you're connected directly to your modem).

The only really viable solution I could see to do this is have somekind of complicated script or code where when they access the site, it generates a unique key or something as a cookie on your computer, and then develop a special add-in to Invision to always require to read that cookie and gather its information, and then lock the user out or not. The thing is, to prepare something like that is quite complicated and not possible if I remember due to security holes it provides for attackers (Not possible through Javascript, possible through Java, but if I recall, security where Java is run as an applet from a browser disables those functions, etc.)

The use of the MAC address is only very useful for your home network if you want to have the tightest security from people hijacking Internet by allowing only a few certain MAC addresses to connect to your router, so like that, even if you're wireless is unsecured, as long as they don't have a MAC address on the whitelist you set, they cannot connect to your network.