I originally posted this under "Reality Check", but decided I didn't want this post buried at the end of an old thread... An issue that's recently popped up on MFC that I think should make it out there for general knowledge is a premium member named AgeOfTim has been putting himself out there as being in possession of software that is able to identify members that are recording models, and was using chipin's to collect money on a monthly basis to "monitor" the rooms of the models being recorded.
Being in the IT industry for 20 years, and specifically working in IT security for 4 1/2... I am an expert on the requirements for computers to communicate.... And I can say with 100% certainty this program does not exist.
For an application to do what he has stated... it would have to compromise MFC's servers, connect with the MFC database to correlate what users are in a models room, and what the members IP addresses are... Then it would have to scan the IP's of 100's, and potentially 1,000's of users... Then compromise the member's computer, and scan any applications running on those computers and identify and recognize any screen capture application running
For this process to work, it would have to beat multiple security mechanisms in place like Firewalls, Web Application Firewalls, Intrusion Detection Sensors/Intrusion Protection Sensors, SIEM log management servers... And then perform SQL injection attacks... And this is simply to gain access to the MFC servers... Any application that might be able to penetrate MFC that badly, would give the the person running it access to credit card numbers, personal info of both models and members, etc
We did confront each other on the topic... And I challenged him to explain to me how this works... The only thing he was able to say was this application was written by a private software company for the government (Somehow he tried to link being in the Army as a reason why he would have access & knowledge of how this application would work)... While I have no doubt's the government is doing some shady shit with computers... Being in the IT security industry I can not think of any reason why it would want an application that would identified anonymous screen capture applications on remote computers.... But he seems to want people to think he's sprinkling magic pixie dust on his computer and it works.
Now the issue in my opinion, is the fact that he has been collecting money for his "services"... particularly from members in the form of chipin collections on his profile. The vast majority of members lack the technical knowledge to understand this is a scam... And some have been willing to "donate" money to this guy based on what models ask them to do. Now as word of what he was doing spread, MFC (assuming Leo) found this out and forced him to remove the chipin donations from his profile.
The point of this post is to try and insure that he's not pushing this scam out to models that might be paranoid enough about being recorded, they pay him themselves. I recently shared e-mails with one of the models he was collecting chipin donations for to "monitor" her room... From what she said... He made understanding how he does this very complicated and confusing... And said she eventually went to Leo to ask if it was possible... If he does approach a model about this... And you're skeptical about what I am saying... I would suggest contacting one of the admins on MFC as I feel confident they will back up what I am saying. If you're uncomfortable with doing this, then insist he turn his cam on to show you the software work (Which I'm certain he won't do)
Being in the IT industry for 20 years, and specifically working in IT security for 4 1/2... I am an expert on the requirements for computers to communicate.... And I can say with 100% certainty this program does not exist.
For an application to do what he has stated... it would have to compromise MFC's servers, connect with the MFC database to correlate what users are in a models room, and what the members IP addresses are... Then it would have to scan the IP's of 100's, and potentially 1,000's of users... Then compromise the member's computer, and scan any applications running on those computers and identify and recognize any screen capture application running
For this process to work, it would have to beat multiple security mechanisms in place like Firewalls, Web Application Firewalls, Intrusion Detection Sensors/Intrusion Protection Sensors, SIEM log management servers... And then perform SQL injection attacks... And this is simply to gain access to the MFC servers... Any application that might be able to penetrate MFC that badly, would give the the person running it access to credit card numbers, personal info of both models and members, etc
We did confront each other on the topic... And I challenged him to explain to me how this works... The only thing he was able to say was this application was written by a private software company for the government (Somehow he tried to link being in the Army as a reason why he would have access & knowledge of how this application would work)... While I have no doubt's the government is doing some shady shit with computers... Being in the IT security industry I can not think of any reason why it would want an application that would identified anonymous screen capture applications on remote computers.... But he seems to want people to think he's sprinkling magic pixie dust on his computer and it works.
Now the issue in my opinion, is the fact that he has been collecting money for his "services"... particularly from members in the form of chipin collections on his profile. The vast majority of members lack the technical knowledge to understand this is a scam... And some have been willing to "donate" money to this guy based on what models ask them to do. Now as word of what he was doing spread, MFC (assuming Leo) found this out and forced him to remove the chipin donations from his profile.
The point of this post is to try and insure that he's not pushing this scam out to models that might be paranoid enough about being recorded, they pay him themselves. I recently shared e-mails with one of the models he was collecting chipin donations for to "monitor" her room... From what she said... He made understanding how he does this very complicated and confusing... And said she eventually went to Leo to ask if it was possible... If he does approach a model about this... And you're skeptical about what I am saying... I would suggest contacting one of the admins on MFC as I feel confident they will back up what I am saying. If you're uncomfortable with doing this, then insist he turn his cam on to show you the software work (Which I'm certain he won't do)
