Originally posted by Kieran:
FDSS-
Spoofing IP's is a trick not all that hard to accomplish- FWIW (no, I will not tell you how- no practical purpose for that other than mischief). I don't think you are doing that necessarily, but you do come off as a regular who is trolling.
Looks like we have another genius in our midst.
Don't you think they sprout like mushrooms on this board?
Wrong, actually spoofing is very hard to do. It requires a decent amount of hacking "knowledge" and is a form of "hack"
Ok, I will provide you with a technical definition of spoofing:
Spoofing is the creation of TCP/IP packets using somebody else's IP address. Routers use the "destination IP" address in order to forward packets through the Internet, but ignore the "source IP" address. That address is only used by the destination machine when it responds back to the source.
A common misconception is that "IP spoofing" can be used to hide your IP address while surfing the Internet, chatting on-line, sending e-mail, and so forth. This is generally not true. Forging the source IP address causes the responses to be misdirected, meaning you cannot create a normal network connection.
However, IP spoofing is an integral part of many network attacks that do not need to see responses (blind spoofing).
Examples of spoofing:
man-in-the-middle
packet sniffs on link between the two end points, and can therefore pretend to be one end of the connection
routing redirect
redirects routing information from the original host to the hacker's host (this is another form of man-in-the-middle attack).
source routing
redirects indvidual packets by hackers host
blind spoofing
predicts responses from a host, allowing commands to be sent, but can't get immediate feedback.
flooding
SYN flood fills up receive queue from random source addresses; smurf/fraggle spoofs victims address, causing everyong respond to the victim.Now, any one with half a brain cell would know that spoofing would not work in Aces High main arena because supposedly you'd want a response from the Main Arena server to return the packets of information to your computer. Right? Ok, so all Mr. Hitech has to do is check the logs for my I.P. address when I logged in as
Tempest9 during my 2 weeks free trial and compare it with my IP address on this message board. So, he has now established that I am from the UK.
Now, if Mr. Hitech checks Dues1 or Deezcamp's ip address and finds it originates from overseas, not only will I have the problam of hacking into an ISP's server (which have firewalls with BIG BALLS), I will also have the problem of fooling the ISP that in fact I do originate from that country even though the server will know I do not by my foreign dailing code. Capish?
