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RE: A public warning about the /echo command... - Erah'sae - 09-11-2017
I've got to back up Unnamed. Â Â
Always treat everything 'evidence' wise as suspect and use your best judgement. Â Faking chat logs / screen shot chat has been a thing for at least two if not three generations of MMO's now.
It does make me wish there were some actual proper chat logging in the game though. Â With this 'screenshot' / active 'cut and paste' only logging it's hard for the other side to contest data as well.
Feh.
RE: A public warning about the /echo command... - Lihli - 09-11-2017
(04-13-2017, 10:25 PM)Faye Wrote: I have also discovered just this week (take a guess how) that tumblr IM's can be altered to look totally legit in screenshots, and even video/streaming. Can't really trust anything you don't witness firsthand. But I am curious about the /echo thing, related to circumstances referenced here and just in general. It can be used to fake /tells and error messages, but can it be used to fake both at the same time? That is to say, if someone set the /echo font to a pink color to fake a /tell, and then set the /echo font to a red color to fake an error message of the /tell not being successfully delivered, would it turn all the /echo text in your chat box red, or would only messages posted in /echo after that be red? I'd test it myself, but I can't get in game at the moment.
I feel like I'm 20 weeks behind the scene on tumblr.
What happened that there's now fake-chats out there..?
How are people even doing this?
RE: A public warning about the /echo command... - M'liliya Tzun - 09-11-2017
(09-11-2017, 12:15 PM)Unnamed Mercenary Wrote: The reason this post isn't pinned is because it's not particularly well-known. (And is perhaps best kept that way. Increasing the visibility is a double-edged sword.)
That was something I considered briefly before replying but I wasn't so sure what the overall opinion on that notion would be. But with that being said I can safely say I agree with leaving it the way it is.