EVE General Discussion

Trust is indeed a 2-way street.

So the Corp's officers will be only too pleased to give you their APIs in return, right?

I'm curious. What, specifically, do you think the data collectors are going to do with your characters information? Buy a house or a car? Get credit cards in you characters name?
In all honesty I can see a few nefarious trolls using this information to wreck havoc upon your characters life in EvE (EvESkunk) but beyond this game I suppose they could to an extent highjack you gaming life to a larger extent then they could otherwise. Do you want to cripple your RL enjoyment of the game because of fears that your digital character may or may not be effected?

it basically means some kids with not much else to do with their lives feel as if they are in a powerful position to check out people's in-game information in more detail, as if lol, as if that prevents "Spies" from joining.... (Spies are those guys that wish they were born as James Bond, but instead, were born an ox).

The only players i've seen with an actual legit issue with API information is traders not wanting others in on their niche markets.

everyone who clicks yes i agree to the EULA just before you download and install,, remember that bit? well just incase you don't
you've agreed to all of this and more, perhaps you should go read it.

now you never have to give anyone your API key as long as you don't want to enter a corp or alliance that insists on them.
so what's the problem? if you've made your mind up and i think you've made that very clear, why would you feel the need to even post this.

snap out of it dude, what are you a pod pilot of a feckin solicitor in space.

go play the game, you sound insane.

PS: ya hijacked Paulus Plain thread ya bollox a hahahahaha

Not exactly, without more clarification.

All of us have multiple IP addresses when communicating online.

Locally, within your LAN (eg connected in your home to your modem/router) you have one IP address.

Then, your modem/router when communicating with your ISP has a different IP address.

Then, when you request information, your ISP will request the information and send that request using a different IP address again.

So when a corp forum, TS, or whatever receives your request or data, the IP address attached to that is a public IP address from your ISP. It doesn't uniquely identify you. In general, only your ISP can do that and once they receive the response, they'll s no it back to your modem/router, which will then forward it on to the relevant computer than made the request.

Normally, at best that will geolocation you to a service providers exchange, which is still information, but not personally identifying in any way without access to more information from your ISP and then more again from the setup of computers on your LAN.

Not if you are careful.

Just takes discipline and personal responsibility.

In either case, if you have one point, no point stating something else. Just state what you wanted to say.

Wow ... just Wow ...

PS: Iceland is not a member of the EU.

I'll never understand the resistance to giving out API keys. If someone doesn't like doing it, don't join or try to join a group that asks for it. I've always given full API keys when asked, the only thing I do is delete emails to protect the privacy of whatever group I was in before.

If you can't find a group that doesn't ask for it, make your own group and recruit others (don't forget to make your ticker {NO-API} so people know lol.

You know you can delete your API keys at any given time right? :P
Nothing about API is for life.