Very interesting story from Xela about thousands of accounts which used RSBot/Powerbot being hacked and robbed. Ironic, but also sad. I guess people may say that these botters deserved it, but I would disagree. They deserved to be banned - not robbed. And Gh0st (Gh0$t) and others who hacked them do deserve to be prosecuted in RL just like any other hackers regardless of who were their targets.
Saturday, February 12, 2011
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To have these two paragraphs in the same post is arguably self-contradictory.
"Now, there is an obvious moral here, and that is not to bot. No innocent players have been hacked. Nobody who wasn't risking a perm ban hasn't been hacked. If you've lost out, suck it up and work for your money the legitimate way, no doubt Jagex have you on a blacklist somewhere."
and:
"So yeah, a story that most people would just look at and think "they deserved it", but botters are people to - likely to make the same mistakes as we do. Learn something from their loss."
I agree with you that it is ironic that these cheaters were hacked. I also agree that nobody, no matter what they have done in the past deserves to be hacked. This is, after all, primitive thinking.
Jagex could have a convenient precedent set if the trial goes as planned, which could be a powerful weapon for them in the future. I'd like to know how it turns out.
The obvious moral is to tell them to suck it up - and I think they should, ultimately it's their own fault.
That doesn't stop me from being sympathetic to their loss and noting that such a hack is not beyond effecting legit players.
I lol'd when I read the crappy cover story the maxed guy who got cleaned posted on the high level forums.
In return he received 9 pages of 'botter scum'
NeobotXP, you mean hasn't been banned yet?!
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