Quote Originally Posted by ServerCollaps View Post
are people scared of getting their erp and pvp alts exposed or whats the matter of everyones panic?
The problem: Many Final Fantasy XIV players have a habit of stalking other players due to various reasons to the point where you can't play the game without being harassed on a daily basis. It already happened outside the game, and in the future, will end up with someone getting hurt, or even possibly die.

The attempted solution: the blacklist revamp was a response to the article I linked, but SE has no Q&A or IT-team to test their services and code. What ends up happening, is that they have linked a specific unique identifier to your account, sent over by network and stored locally on your device. By seeing what the unique identifier is, you can see that account's characters, retainers, creation time, live-location and so on. This is what a particular plugin can do, and people have been warned since DT's release that this is a ticking time bomb.

SE's piss-poor "new" attempted solution: because SE has shown little care, they only gave empty threats to the plugin's developer with a lawsuit (good luck on that lmao) and promised a solution for 7.2 to patch the hole. They created an in-house wannabe cryptography that was cracked within 24 hours rather than use something that's industry standard for better security.

This was already talked to death, but it shows how weak the code already is at this point, and believe it or not, this will get worse. Eventually.