Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-26032509-20170720031847/@comment-2602:306:C5A1:8510:24B6:1C16:609:FC78-20170722153105

MikazukiTori wrote: 2602:306:C5A1:8510:6D91:F79D:18D8:A6E wrote:

MikazukiTori wrote: Just a friendly warning.

I don't want to hurt anyone, but really, I don't recommend to use this method. I asked a reliable computer scientist about copying the IP addresses above in the hosts file and he said this is VERY dangerous, because:

1. with this you edit your operation system what is not recommended to non-professionals, and

2. you actually open up your PC to the ones who own these IP adresses. In other words: they can steal all of your data in a moment.

If you want to play Touken Ranbu, I think it's still better to use VPN or wait until somebody manages to creat new cookie lines. I'd genuinely love to hear your CS friend's explanation of how this edit could open you up to snooping. As far as I'm aware, the host file is simply a list of redirects, where it looks at the IP address and URL in the host file and says "okay, this URL means go over here" instead of asking a DNS server what the URL means. It can be used in attacks, yes, but (again as far as I'm aware) only if some outside attacker has gained the access to modify it so that you're being redirected to malicious sites. It's easy: first, this opens your PC to the one who onws the IP address you copy in the hosts file (as I've written), because hosts files work like this. Second, if a hacker breaks through that IP address, he can get all of other's IP addresses who copied it in the hosts files, and with this, the hacker can collect all of the info about the user: its location, the contain of its PC etc. "It does X because that's how it works" isn't an explanation. I was asking because I've never heard of etc/hosts being anything more that local DNS mapping. And any website you ever visit sees your (or your router's) IP address, so it's not like a hacker would be gaining any additional information just because an IP was added to the hosts file.