Just something I read this morning.

Joined: Nov 19, 2005 Posts: 57 Location: Cambridge

Whether this concerns people or not?

http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/centipedes/battlefield-2142-with-a-dash-of-spyware-207955.php

Apologies if it is a duplication of an existing post.

As you can guess I do not avidly read the forums Smile

Joined: Oct 11, 2006 Posts: 768

Spyware of this sort is almost unavoidable now unless its made outright illegal i'm afraid, its very sad but equally true, i'm not too happy but am i unhappy enough to cancel my preorder? Tbh i dont think i am and they know it or they wouldnt do it, besides i doubt it will take long before some clever bod somewhere works out how to disable it, or at least thats what i hope.

Joined: Oct 13, 2005 Posts: 723

Read it for yourself:
http://www.hostimage.org/img/82432.jpg

Also managed to find this:

Quote:

You can block access to the spyware monitoring servers. IP addresses
72.32.5.0 - 72.32.5.15
Port 9961 so far "

and this:

Quote:

THERE THEY ARE!!! IGA is in Gulford CT, using rackspace servers in Texas as well for something. so, the ports on the demo are 1274 and 1275 for the spyware and the ips for IGA are 72.3.184.153 and 72.32.5.13. i hope this clears things up. god, i miss hacking.

TCP zeus:1213 core.fesl.ea.com:18120 TIME_WAIT
Redwood City, CA for Electronic Arts
TCP zeus:1274 72.3.184.153:17475 TIME_WAIT
Gulford, CT for IGA Technologies
TCP zeus:1275 72.32.5.13: 9961 TIME_WAIT
Gulford, CT for IGA Technologies
TCP zeus:1286 159.153.235.92:18510 ESTABLISHED
Redwood City, CA for Electronic Arts
TCP zeus:1289 207.38.11.34:29900 ESTABLISHED
Irvine, CA for Gamespy Industries

Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 9:49 am

lol bound to happen sometime.. easy to block if you know how

Joined: Mar 30, 2006 Posts: 560 Location: wick

[lol bound to happen sometime.. easy to block if you know how]

Thats good to know java but so is brain surgery and i'm shit at that too, I have all the computer knowledge of a turd Crying or Very sad

jeez it took me three weeks to figure out that loud whirring noise was a fan Smile

http://www.totalbf2142.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4180&page=3 more info here[/quote]

Joined: Mar 30, 2006 Posts: 560 Location: wick

see i cant even work the quote function right Confused

hee hee yup i'm a turd

Joined: Oct 11, 2006 Posts: 768

From that thread;

[DICE]CKMC] wrote:

Data will only be gathered from in game. Web browsing and other profiling data is not being gathered.

Which doesnt look so bad.

Joined: Oct 13, 2005 Posts: 723

Quote:

Originally Posted by [DICE]CKMC
The information that is gathered is specifically related to the ingame ads themselves and not anything personally related to you.

Quote:

The year is 2142
and the dawn of a new Ice age has thrown the world into a panic. The soil not covered by ice can only feed a fraction of the Earth's population. The math is simple and brutal: some will live, most will die.

So it's for ingame ads on billboards and the like. Exactly how many people in the apocalyptic world that is 2142 would be reading a billboard in the middle of a war zone and thinking "Mmmm, must pop down the shop and buy some V!@gra" Laughing

Joined: Oct 11, 2006 Posts: 768

Depends upon the means they use to advertise Viagra, i'm sure there are ways they could get my attention! Wink