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The Fall of Minecraft's 2b2t

FitMC · 7.3M views · 2021-07-24 · 23:55

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Overview

FitMC tells how the Nocom exploit let griefers track players across Minecraft's oldest anarchy server, 2b2t, and the fallout that followed.

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Cited as the original, accurate account of the Nocom exploit, a story of years of player tracking and impressive technical work.

Recommended by 2 HN people across 2 months · HN mentions 2021–2023

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xcdzvyn · 2023-11 · Recommendation

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] [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).

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leijurv · 2021-07 · Recommendation

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 [VIDEO] My explanation [LINK] The 2b2t wiki page about it [LINK]

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cyber_kinetist · 2021-12 · Reference

Here's the FitMC Youtube video that first announced the exploit: [VIDEO] A 2b2t wiki page about the exploit: [LINK] The teaser video: [LINK]

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