The Fall of Minecraft's 2b2t
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FitMC tells how the Nocom exploit let griefers track players across Minecraft's oldest anarchy server, 2b2t, and the fallout that followed.
Cited as the original, accurate account of the Nocom exploit, a story of years of player tracking and impressive technical work.
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3 comments from Hacker News
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).
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
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