Can you be hacked through a BYOND port when hosting a game? My father is pareniod and will not open a port in my firewall to host. I wanted to host a game for my friend. Father is pareniod.... So if you could tell me if you can be hacked through BYOND port that would be great. thanks!
~~--SSJGohan29
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 May 15 2004, 6:19 am
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A hacker can gain access to your computer even if you are not hosting anything. Is it possible? The answer to that is yes, but that goes for anything and everything - not just Byond. The real question is "Is it probable?" The answer to that is no. The programs you should be concerned about are ones like IRC or Kazaa, as those are nasty, virus infested places home to half the hacker wannabe population. I have not heard of a single hacker attack done through Byond. Many threats, yes; but no real attacks. (There are plenty of people who say they are hackers and will threaten you until their face turns blue, but you could probably count the number of true hackers that use Byond on half the fingers of one of your hands [assuming you have a normal set of fingers]; but to be hacked even by those hypothetical few is not likely for the reason I will bring up in my next point.) Even if there were a person or two which could hack into your computer through Byond (which I doubt), they would most likely not be wasting their time trying to do so through Byond and would most likely be spending their time ruining Kazaa and IRC users. Think of it this way: is a thief going to wait in a back alley to jump you or in the police department? That is basically what the difference is like.
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My father hand made my firewall. He is very pareniod about hackers. Though we have never been hacked, he doesnt want to open a port for me to host a game. He said in a few years he might make a computer that is outside my firewall for hosting games only.
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SSJGohan29 wrote:
My father hand made my firewall. He is very pareniod about hackers. Though we have never been hacked, he doesnt want to open a port for me to host a game. He said in a few years he might make a computer that is outside my firewall for hosting games only. If your father actually hand-made your firewall, and didn't just go buy one, then he obviously knows what he's doing, and probably has a reason for his paranoia. | |
That is a bit Unlikely, that is i think his paranoia is a bit unsound.
I made my own hardware firewall for no reason at all, plus I also have a anti-virus gateway on top of that. Every computer on my network has a software firewall, anti-Trojan scanner, plus 2 anti-virus programs (one active). now that is paranoia. And even I would open a port for byond :P. | |
Xzar wrote:
That is a bit Unlikely, that is i think his paranoia is a bit unsound. Maybe he's worried that the NSA will get in. :P | |
As mentioned before, and from my own experience, once a port is in use it is very difficult for a 'cracker' (which are the bads guys, not hackers in general. For example your father is a 'hacker' in the true traditional sense if he hand-built his own firewall- the media has brain-washed you into thinking otherwise, which is a shame...anyway) to 'piggy-back' onto that port.
Most truely malignant crackers would use other methods of getting in, and the majority of people who think they are crackers/hackers are script kiddies who rely on other people's programs to do their work for them, hence they are no threat to a good firewall and generally have no clue about how ports are used anyway. As long as your father's firewall forwards all requests to/from that port to *your* machine directly (called 'port forwarding' in most router/firewall combinations), and as long as *you* close that port on your local machine's firewall when it is not in use, you have no worry about people outside the network using that port, or using it to get into your internal network. If your father has any more questions, I'll be happy to discuss this further off the forum: [email protected] | |
digitalmouse wrote:
As long as your father's firewall forwards all requests to/from that port to *your* machine directly (called 'port forwarding' in most router/firewall combinations), and as long as *you* close that port on your local machine's firewall when it is not in use, you have no worry about people outside the network using that port, or using it to get into your internal network. I will ask him to try port forwarding. Thank you digtalmouse | |
Is it a hardware or software firewall? If it is the later make sure you’re farther updated it lately. As a lot of the software firewalls have had major bugs that can be used by hackers.