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The usage of locally forbidden material in online gaming, to insta ban opponents or as a form of protest is a well known trivial hack. Some games allow to spray

The usage of locally forbidden material in online gaming, to insta ban opponents or as a form of protest is a well known trivial hack. Some games allow to spray an image file to a wall, the picture is downloaded by all players. Locally enforced censorship then causes disconnects and even legal repurcussians to some gamers. In some countries you are strongly obligated to make contact with illegal images know to the authorities. Failing to do so is punishable. Such an attack is as trivial, as annomously sending illegal material to the target, depending on the country. There are thousand of cases of minors sending nudes and causing legal investigations. You find articles of parents sending pictures to doctors and being banned from online services, which are known. Other social attacks, such as giving out free USB sticks with incriminating material are thinkable. Allthoug I am not aware of this being proven to have happened, one can find cases where people used this as a defense. People providing free uncensored internet by running a Tor node are known to have lots of legal troubles because of it, with different severity depending on the country. Even making it to no flight lists. Illegal pictures might not be viewed by the public. A government could just claim they found them on your device and may have a way to exclude them to be viewn by anyone. So an individual may have to start a defense from the fact that illegal material has been found on a device, without a chance to ever see the image. Again depending on the country and legal system, there might not even be a need for those illegal pictures to actually exist. Here a document from a governmental entity suffices.

bombcar 4y ago
I mean I guess you could say Stuxnet was a "free usb hack". A similar variation popular on Reddit is sock-puppeting illegal/forbidden material faster than the moderators can deal with it, and then get the admins to shut it down.
prvit 4y ago
> The usage of locally forbidden material in online gaming, to insta ban opponents or as a form of protest is a well known trivial hack. Some games allow to spray an image file to a wall, the picture is downloaded by all players. Locally enforced censorship then causes disconnects and even legal repurcussians to some gamers. Any examples?
- whoknew1122 4y ago
  I know this was technically possible in Rust (the game, not the language) circa 2015 (when I last played). I'm not sure how often it was used to trigger bans or local law enforcement action, but I wouldn't put it past people in that community. I stopped playing specifically due to the community's toxicity.
  - prvit 4y ago
    Can you actually show a documented example of this? I strongly suspect this is a myth akin to the common reddit copypasta supposed to trigger Chinese filters (and that one is way more likely to work, at least it’s HTTP traffic).
    - whoknew1122 4y ago
      I didn't take any pictures 7 years ago to provide evidence to a forum I didn't even know about at the time, no. But there's someone on Reddit complaining about the same thing at the same time period.[1] NSFW words (not pictures) in the link [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/playrust/comments/3jdjdc/can_we_talk_about_images_on_wooden_signs/ https://www.reddit.com/r/playrust/comments/3jdjdc/can_we_tal...
      - prvit 4y ago
        Oh, yeah, you could totally upload nasty pictures. What I’m questioning is the original claim that people have been using these mechanisms to trigger automatic internet censorship systems to kick people off game servers.
        julianeon 4y ago
        An easy test for plausibility in these cases is: Can we prove a more extreme case? Here the answer is: yes. People demonstrably SWAT others in online games. Victims have actually died from this. Yet it continues to happen. So since the more extreme case - do people trigger police visits to other player's houses, knowing they may die? - is true, the milder case of triggering automatic censorship seems very likely to be true also.
driverdan 4y ago
> There are thousand of cases of minors sending nudes and causing legal investigations. Do you have any evidence of this?
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bombcar 4y ago

I mean I guess you could say Stuxnet was a "free usb hack". A similar variation popular on Reddit is sock-puppeting illegal/forbidden material faster than the moderators can deal with it, and then get the admins to shut it down.

prvit 4y ago

> The usage of locally forbidden material in online gaming, to insta ban opponents or as a form of protest is a well known trivial hack. Some games allow to spray an image file to a wall, the picture is downloaded by all players. Locally enforced censorship then causes disconnects and even legal repurcussians to some gamers. Any examples?

whoknew1122 4y ago
I know this was technically possible in Rust (the game, not the language) circa 2015 (when I last played). I'm not sure how often it was used to trigger bans or local law enforcement action, but I wouldn't put it past people in that community. I stopped playing specifically due to the community's toxicity.
- prvit 4y ago
  Can you actually show a documented example of this? I strongly suspect this is a myth akin to the common reddit copypasta supposed to trigger Chinese filters (and that one is way more likely to work, at least it’s HTTP traffic).
  - whoknew1122 4y ago
    I didn't take any pictures 7 years ago to provide evidence to a forum I didn't even know about at the time, no. But there's someone on Reddit complaining about the same thing at the same time period.[1] NSFW words (not pictures) in the link [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/playrust/comments/3jdjdc/can_we_talk_about_images_on_wooden_signs/ https://www.reddit.com/r/playrust/comments/3jdjdc/can_we_tal...
    - prvit 4y ago
      Oh, yeah, you could totally upload nasty pictures. What I’m questioning is the original claim that people have been using these mechanisms to trigger automatic internet censorship systems to kick people off game servers.
      - julianeon 4y ago
        An easy test for plausibility in these cases is: Can we prove a more extreme case? Here the answer is: yes. People demonstrably SWAT others in online games. Victims have actually died from this. Yet it continues to happen. So since the more extreme case - do people trigger police visits to other player's houses, knowing they may die? - is true, the milder case of triggering automatic censorship seems very likely to be true also.

driverdan 4y ago

> There are thousand of cases of minors sending nudes and causing legal investigations. Do you have any evidence of this?

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