NEVER reveal your 'powder.def' file to anyone.

  • Simon
    19th Jan 2011 Administrator 5 Permalink
    Although it's only happened a handful of times, there have been a number of incidents where powdertoy.co.uk accounts have been compromised because of carelessness with the powder.def file.
    This file contains some settings for Powder Toy, but it also contains your username and password, people making and uploading Modifications to the game tend to be careless and end up packaging this file with their username and password for anyone else to use.

    This Announcement is directed toward those uploading mods, but is still applicable to anyone that decides to upload any Powder Toy files.
  • PowerShroomsAttack
    19th Jan 2011 Member 2 Permalink
    Wait, uploading files? What does that mean?
  • Dadasas
    19th Jan 2011 Member 3 Permalink
    You could try a different encryption system, I guess.
  • Candunc
    19th Jan 2011 Member 1 Permalink
    @PowerShroomsAttack
    When some people upload compiled mods, they may include powder.def files and other people can hijack their account.
  • Simon
    19th Jan 2011 Administrator 1 Permalink
    @Dadasas
    The encryption system is not the issue, since passwords are usually fairly small, it's not difficult to bruteforce them. I may replace the current system with one that does not store the password locally in a future update to the Powder Toy.
  • Dadasas
    19th Jan 2011 Member 0 Permalink
    @Simon So if the internet is down, it wont save my password? (I guess it doesn't matter, because I wont be able to play with online scenes if the internet is down.)
  • RedFlash
    19th Jan 2011 Member 0 Permalink
    Yew101 had this problem a while back. Why weren't the passwords stored on the server anyway?
  • Merbo
    19th Jan 2011 Member 0 Permalink
    Yew had the same prob again, genius.
  • PowerShroomsAttack
    19th Jan 2011 Member 0 Permalink
    Well, I'm no good with coding so I'm probably good from this. ;) Yay!
  • t-guy5-0-0-0
    19th Jan 2011 Member 0 Permalink
    thanks to that, someone got their greasy mitts on my flashdrive and i got banned because they were being retarded. if it wasnt because they stole saves please let me know(simon) rest in peace tman5000 and t-man5000
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