Hello everyone.......
Ok, for WEEKS now, people have been bombing my ICQ to come kick a speed cheat from this server, that server, so I tonight.. very late btw, decided to ask a few questions to the man who EVERYONE I have spoken too got there hack from, Jaff.de
I was going to try and keep clam, but I felt myself losing it halfway through!
Please read it, see what you think, but IMHO, he shouldn't have released the hack period, and this is what I want you to vote on. Jaff.de seems convinced he did the right thing, I think that there were other ways to convince admins and servers to take action rather than the FORCEFUL approach adopted by Jaff.de
Was he right or wrong??? Have your say.......
This is now a FULL ICQ chat log, nothing removed, and as the speed hack is now available in more places than Tescos, I did want to leave the whole lot intact, but decided NOT to give away the locations just incase!!!
here it is................
jjaf.de: (12:59 AM) so, here i am now.
[RWA]Lara: (1:00 AM) Ok, I thought you were against the speed cheat?
jjaf.de: (1:00 AM) the reason for that was (like explaned in ...) the belief to better the system. And i think it worked.
jjaf.de: (1:00 AM) we have an increasing number of secured servers.
[RWA]Lara: (1:00 AM) yeah, but you now have clans using it too.. and it is STILL Available from you
jjaf.de: (1:01 AM) but you as a player now have a choice, where as you had none before. You can stop them cheating by telling the admin how.
[RWA]Lara: (1:02 AM) so it stops them cheating???
jjaf.de: (1:04 AM) The requirement for publishing of this was, that there was an antidode for that. When i discovered that monkey mod 1.25c was resistant there was no reason for publishing beacuse other mods were vilnerable (like assault), but the latest solution applies to _all_ servers, regartdless of mod or OS.
jjaf.de: (1:04 AM) so there was no reason for me to keep this secret any more. This was the policy from the first time on. I told this to everybody, and so it went this way.
[RWA]Lara: (1:05 AM) So why in that case is it that on wireplay Memorial server, I caught TWO clan members, of DIFFERENT clans, using it??
jjaf.de: (1:06 AM) Because these players are *****. And nobody told the wireplay-admin which 2 lines to include in the config, no big deal.
[RWA]Lara: (1:06 AM) its been posted everywhere
jjaf.de: (1:07 AM) everybody can have this information. thats better than before that some had it and the most stood mightless. Now you can couter or inhibit this, i feel that as an improvement, what do you think? Was it better before?
jjaf.de: (1:08 AM) What has been postet,t houg, the patched "kingpin.exe" or the URL?
[RWA]Lara: (1:08 AM) well Monkey Harris had it sussed in days, so I cannot say.. I am a bit surprised that u decided to go public in the USA, and gave a link to where it could be downloaded, why do that??
jjaf.de: (1:09 AM) in the USA? Why USA?
jjaf.de: (1:11 AM) Maybe its beacuse this moral standard for hackers-link is in german only.
It includes (as described in ...) that theres a rule that all information is free when theres also a belief that ... in this case this applied in this point of time.
[RWA]Lara: (1:13 AM) well, you had your reasons, are you a wp admin?
jjaf.de: (1:13 AM) then wireplay would not have had any problems with cheaters would they?
jjaf.de: (1:13 AM) Monkey Harris knew the solution and he did not tell them i don't know why.
jjaf.de: (1:14 AM) ... but he told me that in my weekend off there was cheating on wireplay.
[RWA]Lara: (1:14 AM) Like you, maybe he had his own agenda. Are you an ADMIN for wireplay?
jjaf.de: (1:15 AM) No, i have no relations to them.
jjaf.de: (1:15 AM) why is that important to you and why are you in privacy mode asking me where i was hiding before :-)
LINK REMOVED HERE SORRY!!!!!
[RWA]Lara: (1:18 AM) It is only important to me as I didnt think a wireplay admin would act in such a manner, and I am invisable because I am off to bed now, as its 1.15am, and I dont want anymore late night chats
jjaf.de: (1:19 AM) I suppose thats the reason for fileplanet not to have the link finished by now, but theres no xatrix any more and it's just a patch.
jjaf.de: (1:20 AM) I just get the question from australia: "hey are u allowed 2 cheat in severs??" isn't that nice.
jjaf.de: (1:21 AM) As an admin i would secure the server and then publish the patch.
[RWA]Lara: (1:21 AM) Hey heres a test for you....... if you are SO SURE that what you have done is 100% correct, in your opinion, why not post on the gameplay forums, in the Kingpin section , and tell all the people that read that forum what you have done, including going onto a US server and supplying the link to the cheat which is WAS on your server but has now been removed
jjaf.de: (1:23 AM) gameplay forum was on the track from the start. It's in the first parapgraph of the FAQ. When Monkey Harris told me that there were ppl having questions about that i posted my link today midday already.
jjaf.de: (1:24 AM) I know that some ppl have another opinion about that, as long as they discuss that thats okay.
[RWA]Lara: (1:25 AM) yeah but did u tell them on the forums YOU were supplying the link to where people could download the file from, did you tell them the file was available from you??? Did u say you had used it yourself in a game, and then told everyone in that game where they could get it from?
jjaf.de: (1:27 AM) No, i have the "Requently Asked Questions" (F-A-Q) for that,. That was the link i supllied as F-A-Q. And i have no reason to say that i used it in _game_. I was asked to come on a seperate server for demo, that's what i did.
jjaf.de: (1:28 AM) i just notice something.
[RWA]Lara: (1:29 AM) it doesnt say anywhere in the FAQ that you tell people on the servers that you can suppy the cheat itself, nor does it say that that you have openly used it ingame, MORE THAN ONCE, nor does it say that if people ask you for the cheat, you willingly give it to them, and i can prove the last one if you require it
jjaf.de: (1:29 AM) Looks like gameplay forum admin censored this messages, i can not see it at the place i put it anymore.
jjaf.de: (1:30 AM) did you reload that page (is it the update of today, showing in the line direcly unter the header before contents?)
[RWA]Lara: (1:31 AM) It doesnt matter, you have updated the FAQ yes?
jjaf.de: (1:31 AM) Yes at least on --21 and today. because the requirements were met.
[RWA]Lara: (1:32 AM) what requirements are these
[RWA]Lara: (1:32 AM) you havent answered my previous questions btw..............
jjaf.de: (1:32 AM) It says everything you mentioned execpt of "openly usage in game more than oce" what do you mean by that? have you seen a jjaf.de cheating somewhere, maybe this weekend, maybe on wireplay?
[RWA]Lara: (1:33 AM) there is a demo of it somewhere, and no, not this weekend, a week or so ago
jjaf.de: (1:33 AM) Your anser is the second paragraph of Q-7 "According of the ethics ..."
[RWA]Lara: (1:34 AM) The FAQ is only to suit you isnt it???
jjaf.de: (1:34 AM) ... and where should that have been? Actively using it or just running around, leaving with 0 frags 0 deposit.
[RWA]Lara: (1:35 AM) NOT USING IT AT ALL!
[RWA]Lara: (1:36 AM) The original FAQ said nothing about the items I mentioned above, IE using it - Supplying it - and giving it to people who ask for it.. correct?????
jjaf.de: (1:36 AM) hmm? I tell you something. I have an original "kingpin.exe" here and a "kingpin-speed-patched.exe" version i did for someone not able to reproduce the text on the hack page. Can you imageine wich version is taken when launching from gamespy? The original unpatched one..
[RWA]Lara: (1:37 AM) and how long does it take to rename the file?
jjaf.de: (1:38 AM) The original FAQ had the same text for Q-4 "Do you use it in game?" and Q-5 "Why don' t you ..."
I did say i _won't_ supply the cheat until theres a cure for it. according to the moral standards blah blah..
jjaf.de: (1:39 AM) Explicitly it said in "Do you give it do me": "No." <explanation>
jjaf.de: (1:40 AM) What do you mean by "The FAQ is only to suit you isnt it???"
[RWA]Lara: (1:41 AM) The FAQ was only written by you I think to try and cover yourself, in reality, it only ever suited you, you knew that eventually there would be a way to stop the cheats, but you had the cheat before this, and you released it to people KNOWING that the protection wasnt in place on the servers, so you have really used it to your own ends
jjaf.de: (1:41 AM) The explanation was that there was no cure for that so that was the reason not to publish before. As i said efore even them i dicovered monkey mod of special version resistant this was not sufficient for publishing.
jjaf.de: (1:43 AM) I released it to ppl when protection was not in place on most servers, thats right. Q-/ (second paragraph) again explains why this happened. (you can not reach every admin iof every server n the first place , as most don't publish _any_ address (not http nor smtp) but you don't have to.)
jjaf.de: (1:44 AM) Q-7 i mean
[RWA]Lara: (1:44 AM) you have been telling everyone for at least the last two weeks where they can get the cheat from, and how to use it, and there are STILL servers without protection, so you said that you would NOT release it until a cure was found, thats to suit YOU ONLY, a cure was found, but takes time to administor, so why not put all this on the forums and leave it to your public to decide........ NO I THOUGHT NOT!
jjaf.de: (1:45 AM) With all this you mean only the "cure"-side, not the "hack"-side.
jjaf.de: (1:46 AM) But how would you let the public decide? do you have a polling system, and what vote qould be needed?
[RWA]Lara: (1:46 AM) You released a hack KNOWING it could be used on the servers
jjaf.de: (1:46 AM) it's only 5 days that i published ithe hack not 2 weeks.
jjaf.de: (1:47 AM) yes, by purposes as descibed in Q-7
[RWA]Lara: (1:47 AM) OVER A WEEK AGO you were on the USA servers telling them where to get the hack from
Tell u what, I will do it for you mate, see what the people of the KP community think of it ok
[RWA]Lara: (1:48 AM) why do you keep throwing up your FAQ??? That was made BY YOU, not the KP community
jjaf.de: (1:48 AM) What will you do? Let me check for the right date.
jjaf.de: (1:48 AM) what do yuo mean by throwing up?
[RWA]Lara: (1:49 AM) You keep saying >>>>>Q7 >>>>> Q3
It is made by you, you are simply trying to reason with yourself and use it as a valid explination as to why you did what you did
jjaf.de: (1:49 AM) i did the screenshots on --19T22:09 must have been early --20 when they got published.
[RWA]Lara: (1:50 AM) and when u found out that it was wrong you updated it!
jjaf.de: (1:50 AM) i updated it from "what"(?) to this version?
[RWA]Lara: (1:50 AM) You tell me
jjaf.de: (1:51 AM) You had the old version in your cache, not me anymore. I told you what i changed.
[RWA]Lara: (1:52 AM) it changed because??????
jjaf.de: (1:52 AM) The news changed.
[RWA]Lara: (1:52 AM) the news being???
jjaf.de: (1:53 AM) Q-10 evolved. with Q-10 in place i wrote the hacklpage.
[RWA]Lara: (1:53 AM) the news didnt change until when?
jjaf.de: (1:53 AM) and it was changed before when monkey mod resistance was discobered.
jjaf.de: (1:53 AM) hehe, ok i will look it up.
jjaf.de: (1:55 AM) --19, FAQ was also infuenced by harris teeling me to delte the root-link to his page and someone else to t´delte his name from the story.
[RWA]Lara: (1:55 AM) so u believe that you were right to allow people access to the hack, even though you knew damm well that the servers had no protection in place???
jjaf.de: (1:56 AM) at this time 410 servers were secure, the day after there were 10 more.
jjaf.de: (1:56 AM) 10 i mean
jjaf.de: (1:57 AM) i knew of the otheres unsecured.
jjaf.de: (1:57 AM) so that was the reason for publishing the link on servers with both information pro/contra.
[RWA]Lara: (1:57 AM) that didnt answer the question, you just evaded it, DO YOU THINK you were right in releasing the hack to anyone who wanted it when YOU KNEW there were unprotected servers
jjaf.de: (1:58 AM) Yes, beacuse that was the distribution method for the cure also. Otherwise admins would not have taken this urgent config.change.
jjaf.de: (1:59 AM) How do you get an admin to change his configuration to safe? Tell me.
[RWA]Lara: (1:59 AM) Thats what I wanted to know - do you think the people who will read this will think you acted responsibly?
jjaf.de: (2:00 AM) Not all.
jjaf.de: (2:00 AM) But some already told me that it was ok.
jjaf.de: (2:00 AM) It's a controversy.
[RWA]Lara: (2:00 AM) lets have a guess ... precentage wise???
jjaf.de: (2:00 AM) hmm.
jjaf.de: (2:01 AM) most ppl. did't say anything. the rest is quite a bit lager group for pros than for contras (like you).
Although one has to say that the intensity of the discssion is much higher with contras.
[RWA]Lara: (2:02 AM) and the ones that told you it was ok, they know you have been giving the cheat out?? or that you have had the cheat a while, or that you have even been on the USA servers telling people where to get it from?
jjaf.de: (2:04 AM) Whats the problem wih USA servers? The information is written in english and kinpin-language, what is the difference then? What sertvers do you mean?
I asked some ppl were they did get the URL from and they said someone on an australian server told them, not me.
jjaf.de: (2:05 AM) They stated ok to give the cheat out. The most didn't like the fact that i had the cheat for a while before (that was the reason to create the FAQ in the first place (as descibed ...), but you won't believe.
[RWA]Lara: (2:05 AM) but you were still telling them, and maybe the problem spread because you were telling them?? How many of there servers were insecure against this cheat?? U didnt have to supply them with the link to the file did ypu, so WHY tell them???
jjaf.de: (2:05 AM) BTW: Did contact security developers before that.
[RWA]Lara: (2:06 AM) well, I will post this chat in its WHOLE form, and then ask the people who care about the game to vote as to whether or not you acted responsibly, is that OK???
jjaf.de: (2:07 AM) I was asked by some players how to stop others from cheating.
jjaf.de: (2:07 AM) I told them i will have a look. That's what came up: Now theres a solution and publishing the hack is for two reasons:
jjaf.de: (2:08 AM) 1. Making information free when theres no considerable permanent threat to the system.
jjaf.de: (2:09 AM) 2 Push the admins to secure their servers to make the system better (wich iIMHO i achieved
[RWA]Lara: (2:09 AM) Ok well i will post all this and see what happens OK
jjaf.de: (2:10 AM) you mean this threat you will post on gameplay.com (let's hope they won't censore this again, like my own messages)?
jjaf.de: (2:10 AM) Did it have any new information not already on the page?
[RWA]Lara: (2:10 AM) I will post all of this, and see what the gamers say..... ok?
jjaf.de: (2:11 AM) Yes, do that, it's ok, just tell me where.
[RWA]Lara: (2:11 AM) ok.. later ...........
jjaf.de: (2:12 AM) They didn't have the chance to see my view due to cencorship.
[RWA]Lara: (2:12 AM) ok.. I will see where it went........
jjaf.de: (2:12 AM) But you won't include the URL so ppl might get the impression i _invented_ that thing.
[RWA]Lara: (2:14 AM) As you say, you beleive you were right to let the thing into release, and it was on your server, so what is the problem publishing the URL?
jjaf.de: (2:15 AM) I wuld like to publish that, but i see that gamesplay.com formum admin didn't like that and censored my whole message (it's deleted) so this might happen to your posting too if you include the URL.
[RWA]Lara: (2:15 AM) Ok, I will see what happens!
And that was that... god im fukedBut I HOPE that at least some of you are of the same opinion as me, he was wrong! The file for the hack was actual available for download over a week ago, but he removed it due to pressure I beleive!
Anyways, I really care about this game, so I would like you all to have your say, if you think he did it right tell him so, but I for one do not think this..... and I do not think for a minute im alone!
[RWA]Lara






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