Banning a user questions?

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Just cos I'm in the business of online poker fraud an we block IP's of synidcates.

I was wondering - in the case of a permnent ban, is the same done here?

Just wondering?

And this refers more to spammers.

:)
 
I've often wondered the same thing Jonny...

You can apparently also be "perma" banned from gaming servers, and they find other accounts by checking for the same IP creating more than one account. But surely people's IPs change between creating accounts or even log-ons?

Is there some other identifiable info that you send out, maybe your MAC address?
 
Ekhaatvensters said:
I've often wondered the same thing Jonny...

You can apparently also be "perma" banned from gaming servers, and they find other accounts by checking for the same IP creating more than one account. But surely people's IPs change between creating accounts or even log-ons?

Is there some other identifiable info that you send out, maybe your MAC address?
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root@infant-finite:~# macchanger -r eth1
Current MAC: 5c:8c:03:4b:8f:25 (unknown)
Faked MAC: 7e:54:5e:18:3a:d6 (unknown)
You could look at mac addresses, but it won't be much use either.
 
edc said:
root@infant-finite:~# macchanger -r eth1
Current MAC: 5c:8c:03:4b:8f:25 (unknown)
Faked MAC: 7e:54:5e:18:3a:d6 (unknown)
You could look at mac addresses, but it won't be much use either.
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How on earth are you going to determine someone's MAC address from a HTTP connection? The Internet operates at layer 3-7, MAC is layer 2.
 
I would have thought something similar, (minus those technical bits) but I think he was just responding to my question.

Does anyone have an answer? I've seen people pull logs of someones IP to find his other accounts, but surely the IP would have changed inbetween creating acounts, and how would IP bans make sense, people are often threatened with them.
 
Ekhaatvensters said:
I would have thought something similar, (minus those technical bits) but I think he was just responding to my question.

Does anyone have an answer? I've seen people pull logs of someones IP to find his other accounts, but surely the IP would have changed inbetween creating acounts, and how would IP bans make sense, people are often threatened with them.
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IP banning is not a proper solution because you come from a different IP address so often. A threat to ban an IP address would only affect someone who doesn't know better.

Requiring telephone or SMS validation, or a waiting period would probably help, but would inconvenience new users.
 
Do they not just ban the e-mail address that is used during registration?
 
What about, through an ID number? - its suppose to be a unique identification?
 
skoob said:
What about, through an ID number? - its suppose to be a unique identification?
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I see a few problems with that
Firstly I wouldnt trust just anybody on the net with that.
And what about people that don't have an ID number?
 
And how the hell are you going to verify it?
 
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