FitMC tells how the Nocom exploit let griefers track players across Minecraft's oldest anarchy server, 2b2t, and the fallout that followed.
Why Hacker News points people here: Cited as the original, accurate account of the Nocom exploit, a story of years of player tracking and impressive technical work.
“it details a story of gaslighting, 3 years of player data, and some really really impressive technical work”HN comment, 2023
“That article has a lot of inaccuracies, typos, and general mistakes due to it being a summary of a YouTube video.”
Original video behind an inaccurate article summarizing 2b2t's fall
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Hi, this was me. That article has a lot of inaccuracies, typos, and general mistakes due to it being a summary of a YouTube video. I recommend instead looking at: The video it is summarizing this video My explanation link The 2b2t wiki page about it link
RecommendsxcdzvynNov 2023
“it details a story of gaslighting, 3 years of player data, and some really really impressive technical work”
Story of the Nocom exploit tracking every player, with gaslighting and three years of data
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Perhaps the most impressive feat I've seen out of 2B2T was an exploit called "Nocom". It began with 2B2T being hit with a lag exploit, then that exploit being fixed in a 3-line patch - that patch subtly introduced another exploit that allowed the author to track the position of every player in the server at all times, down to the chunk. I won't explain the whole video[0], but it details a story of gaslighting, 3 years of player data, and some really really impressive technical work, given this is all over a block game. [0] this video And while certainly not to the scale of Minecraft, Counter-Strike does have a (diminishing) sizeable community of cheaters that majorly play against each other, competing in technique and configuration, called Hack-vs-Hack (HvH).
Cites itcyber_kinetistDec 2021
“Here's the FitMC Youtube video that first announced the exploit”
The video that first announced the Nocom exploit
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Here's the FitMC Youtube video that first announced the exploit: this video A 2b2t wiki page about the exploit: link The teaser video: link