Disconnection DOS attack?

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VintagePawn
bolt_eater wrote:

if you think that there is no hacker slick enough to get your IP from playing a game of internet chess, then you Mr. Psychologist, you are the crazy one. I can think of household name CEOs of tech companies that could likely do it with one finger tied behind their back. For a good hacker with his favorite toolkit, it would likely only take a few seconds to get it. 
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No one is saying it is impossible, just that in order to get your IP they gave to hack the server process because that is the only way to get your IP. If they have hacked the server process, they wouldn't be winning a few games here and there, they would be doing something more worthwhile with that access.

 

Add to that, if you check the archives of anyone you think are doing it, you'll quickly see they are not winning any more games due to their opponents being disconnected than any other member with a sufficient number of games to get a statistically significant number of disconnect wins.

 

 

 

Sir-Foxy
VintagePawn wrote:
bolt_eater wrote:

if you think that there is no hacker slick enough to get your IP from playing a game of internet chess, then you Mr. Psychologist, you are the crazy one. I can think of household name CEOs of tech companies that could likely do it with one finger tied behind their back. For a good hacker with his favorite toolkit, it would likely only take a few seconds to get it. 
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No one is saying it is impossible, just that in order to get your IP they gave to hack the server process because that is the only way to get your IP. If they have hacked the server process, they wouldn't be winning a few games here and there, they would be doing something more worthwhile with that access.

 

Add to that, if you check the archives of anyone you think are doing it, you'll quickly see they are not winning any more games due to their opponents being disconnected than any other member with a sufficient number of games to get a statistically significant number of disconnect wins.

 

 

 

Yeah, but Jeff Bezos doesn't need the money, he just wants to troll noobs in chess. He obviously hacked the server and ran the statistics. He keeps his wins due to mate, disconnect, and resignation within the normal expected parameters.

In fact he cheats with an engine to manipulate the win by checkmate and resignation. Bezos also hacks the other player's computer to keep the mate and resignation percentages in balance.

All while maintaining a 1000 rating.

Plus, since the OP's complaint is common, it just proves that Bezos is doing this with, likely, thousand of accounts simultaneously.

Didn't consider that did you Mr "Occam's Razor Has Something To Say"

After considering the fact that this is a conspiracy on a global scale you don't think the OP is a myopic fool whose (poor) logic is a slave to their psychology now do you?

bolt_eater

you are right, this "disconnection attack" is definitely a global conspiracy. not only on this game server, but on every single one that i have played real-time games with others. People don't  think it's their local internet, but prolly is. the chances that it is some hacker tricking them into a loss is less than 0. I didn't think about Bezos, I don't know anything about amazon, but ok... good enough. Yeah, a guy like that would never have time to hack on anything except to enhance his own product.

The Op has absolutely no reason to invest any time to rectify a problem that does not realistically exist.

sorry for being the "Occam's Razor" guy. I don't think the Ops are fools at all to totally dismiss this topic as total nonsense. 

Cryus7
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Exo2323

I have a VPN configured and it still happened so this is an attack on the Chess.com server.  You have to be pretty pathetic to cheat in online game where we're supposed to be working to get better or just for good competition. What do you gain by cheating? A higher rating that's not a true indication of your skill or lack thereof. 

XtremeMate

this happened to me to day..when my opponents time was less than 1 minutes and i was on 5 minutes my connection started disconnecting and connecting but in quick succession, and then mouse started becoming unstable when moving, everything become very slow and when i moved my queen, the queen just dropped where it wasn't supposed, and he took my queen.

i lost all my pieces and i was being checked, and while the opponents time was less then 5 secs it kept jumping back to 5 second after he plays.

I just won on time before he checkmate me

bolt_eater

XtremeMate: sounds like one of your local services took a crap right at the worst time. Tis' the nature of electronic communications. Just when you need it to work most, k-pow! it blows up in your face.

Martin_Stahl
smellybooty99 wrote:

theres actually a way to do it using ddos tool and the just dos the url of the current game. its a tool called loic ive seen people use it before.

That would only impact the site and not the opponent and if it caused an issue, it would impact the sending player as much as anything. The two clients don't directly connect, so that doesn't impact the other client unless the process ends up causing server issues for everyone.

EllisHoward
I didn’t know this was a thing, dang
Martin_Stahl
EllRado wrote:
I didn’t know this was a thing, dang

It's not a thing.

MormonRepublican2

it's the advertiser companies. some chess players are rich enough to buy ads and use those that adspace to make sure you lose connection by having the ad server take priority and deliver the content extra slow. It's a side effect of the end of net neutrality.

Martin_Stahl
MormonRepublican2 wrote:

it's the advertiser companies. some chess players are rich enough to buy ads and use those that adspace to make sure you lose connection by having the ad server take priority and deliver the content extra slow. It's a side effect of the end of net neutrality.

Members here can't control which ads are shown since the site uses a third parry ad provider. It also wouldn't be an effective way to do it, even if they could manage to get bad code past the controls, as there's no guarantee any of their opponents would ever get it.

Ads can cause some latency though.