Turtles Bypass Plotme

turtles are bypassing plotme by breaking blocks without caring about plotme protection

This has been addressed in the the latest beta with a turtle permissions API - though this will require the mod providing plotme protection implementing it. This has always been a known issue with ComputerCraft (and most mods that implement some method of world interaction).

Here is a temporary solution: http://pastebin.com/1KPk6RhF

It redefines the turtle functions and is getting the location from gps.

Lion4ever, on 31 May 2015 - 05:55 PM said:

Here is a temporary solution: http://pastebin.com/1KPk6RhF

It redefines the turtle functions and is getting the location from gps.

The trouble is that that could be bypassed using os.queueEvent("modem_message", some arguments). And if someone wishes to maliciously use turtles they will try to find every way to get around it.

SquidDev, on 31 May 2015 - 06:31 PM said:

The trouble is that that could be bypassed using os.queueEvent("modem_message", some arguments). And if someone wishes to maliciously use turtles they will try to find every way to get around it.

The can not queue fake Events when it is in the autostart folder. If they try to get around then better make sure that there is no way around it :D/>

Lion4ever, on 31 May 2015 - 07:45 PM said:

SquidDev, on 31 May 2015 - 06:31 PM said:

The trouble is that that could be bypassed using os.queueEvent("modem_message", some arguments). And if someone wishes to maliciously use turtles they will try to find every way to get around it.

The can not queue fake Events when it is in the autostart folder. If they try to get around then better make sure that there is no way around it :D/>

Sorry, should have been more clear. You could override the GPS library to bypass this or queue modem_message events to emulate a GPS result with a fake distance so it thinks it is a particular position when it isn't.

SquidDev, on 31 May 2015 - 07:59 PM said:

Sorry, should have been more clear. You could override the GPS library to bypass this or queue modem_message events to emulate a GPS result with a fake distance so it thinks it is a particular position when it isn't.

The gps.locate() is only called once and that is before any user code can be executed. You could only place a gps host with wrong coodinates, but if players cant deactivate the real gps hosts then gps.locate will fail and they can not use the turtle.

Lion4ever, on 31 May 2015 - 08:08 PM said:

The gps.locate() is only called once and that is before any user code can be executed.

So they can start the turtle inside an un-protected area, then drive it into a protected area and still break blocks?

I would've thought the answer to that to be obvious, even if the code weren't available for you to read. :P/>

I just noticed that i have not answerd here yet: Normal players can not place the turtle on the paths between the plots (that what you call the unprotected area). That all turtles placed by oped players outside of a normal player plot can do everything is just so that ops are not limited in their turtle usage.