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Re: gogo K2!
schrotti - 12.11.2006, 13:41gogo K2!
Zitat:
Well, here goes nothing,
I am positive that I am going to be flamed, insulted, threatened and hated for what I am about to say. But I sincerely hope that everyone takes the time to actually read all I am about to write. Then, after you finish, take time to think about what I have said. I am sure that a large number of you will call me a flip-flopper and a brown noser. That's ok. Your entitled to your opinions.
First let me start by saying this. I do not arbitrarily hate any nationality or person just because a few select individuals of that sect are corrupt. Just because someone is different does not make them wrong or bad.
For the past month I have watched the Knight Online forum fill up with page after page anti K2/KO ranting and ravings. I admit and also regret that I contributed to it as well. I made accusations that I could not validate, and I insulted some individuals without regard for their feelings. For this I am profoundly sorry. I will be the first to admit that I have faults just like everyone else. I swore that I was "quitting this blankity-blank game" and slammed K2 Networks by claiming "they haven't got the skills necessary to fix the game". I even directly insulted GM Sullimo in my ignorant ranting. [/end_self_abasement].
So, only one week after I swore off playing Knight online I had an epiphany of sorts.
I had just returned home after working 14 hours under very stressful conditions and all I wanted to do was vegetate in front of my computers. So I kicked off my shoes and flopped into my desk chair and stared absent mindedly at My Knight Online PC wallpaper for a few minutes just trying to let the stress drain out of me. I surfed around the net for awhile and found myself at the knight Online forum perusing the various topics and hacker complaints. At first I just sort of sulked over the fact that "K2 wasn't helping us legit players". But the more I soaked in my self pity I began to feel an anger seething up inside over the fact that inconsiderate cheaters had ruined one of my favorite ways to unwind and their seemed to be nothing I could do about it. I felt that K2 was mostly to blame for not managing their business as I felt they should. I had heard rumors of corruption and speculation that perhaps K2 themselves were in some fashion responsible for the famed "Hack Program". So I set out on a personal vendetta to dig up some dirt on K2 Networks but having no clue (in retrospect) what I planed to do with that dirt once I had excavated it.
With only a few queries I found the site for the hack program and where it originated from no big deal. At once I could see that the whole site was quickly and very poorly created. Now I've been in the IT industry for the better part of 10 years and I know a scam site when I see one. I am 99% sure this program has a key logger of sorts as well as a primitive SMTP engine that collects user login information and then forwards that information to a remote location. So a user will download and install this "tool" thinking they can use it to level up in a few days and then rule CZ. They reach a high level and get all their high class items, then they log in one day to see.... "OH POOR ME !!! MY ACCOUNT HAS BEEN HACKED!!!!!"............. boohoo! It wasn't hacked you moron, you gave them your info!
So my conclusion about the hack program was, "wow even K2 isn't this disorganized".
After that bit of digging I decided to probe a little deeper in my search on K2. What I discovered astounded me.
My first concern was users credit card information being extrapolated from K2's database so I did some searching to see what measures an e-commerce company must take to protect consumer information. All your major credit card companies have teamed up to create what is known as the Payment Card Industry data security standard (PCIDSS) which requires all e-merchants to adhere to strict guidelines such as having high end antivrius, firewall, and data encryption to and from the card holders computer. Applications that process credit card information must have a thorough code inspection by and outside agency or they must employ a web transaction firewall. K2 has done both. They routinely audit their code and they use Netcontinuum's hardware firewall that actually checks each line that you submit via web forms for professional hack attempts such as SQL injections .I did more searching trying to find a approximate price tag for that kind of hardware, The cheapest was $30,000.00 USD! That's more then most of the kids playing this game will make in the next 10 years! Heck, that's more then the average salary of a high school grad. I'd call that a good investment just to protect your credit card information. That's just for their commerce division, it does not include the cost of other components needed for their data infrastructure. The game servers alone could cost $1,000,000 +.
Until just a few months ago K2 was battling daily hack attempts from professional hacking rings. I'm not talking about some script kiddies trying to launch a DOS attack or get free premiums and duped items. I'm talking about big dogs that would hack an account of a high level player, change the username and password to lock the user out, and then demand that K2 pay them a ransom to the tune of $5,000 USD! If K2 refused then the player was forced to watch their character, that they had spent years building up, be striped (raped if you will) of all their items and sold to the highest bidder on certain online auctions!
Now I have installed and ran small scale web and VPN servers for small businesses that didn't even deal in e-commerce, and the number of attacks I saw come across the access logs was shocking, And they were only stray bots from other infected systems on the internet! Now imagine that in conjunction with hundreds of pros hammering away at your information security systems!
So, if that's not enough to make you stop and think lets look at another scenario that K2 is faced with.
They have around 95 employees to man handle 8 million plus users. 8,000,000/95 = approximately 84,210 users to 1 K2 rep. I think a 24 hour response time for even a third (about 28,000) that may submit support tickets is almost insurmountable. Also remember that not all 95 employees are CS reps.
Let me paint it another way:
A man is being pounded on by 10 men twice his size, he's having a rough enough time as is. Then to make matters worse the passers by start yelling at him for not stopping to help little old ladies crosse the street!
Lets cut them some slack people. You know they heard us during the "No Premium In November" protest, and they are taking steps to fix the problem, believe me. I hear a lot of people saying W.O.W. has far less problems, why cant K2 be like that. You have to stop and think, Blizzard Entertainment(tm) is 12 years old, K2 is only 5. Give them time and I think they have the potential to be and industry leader in online game security.
So, in closing, we made our point during the november campaign, now let show K2 that we are willing to support them in making what is already the most entertaining game online the most secure game online! Lets post those screen shots and gang up on hack users! bring on the trolls!!!!!! WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE AND WE WILL!!!!! WE WILL NOT LET THE SCUM RUIN OUR GAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
quelle: http://24.11.236.130/supportk2.htm
Re: gogo K2!
Bladewing - 13.11.2006, 21:14
mhh.. sehr mutig... ka. ob mich das überzeugt hat xD
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