Hello members of CivEx,

I am writing you today to address a concern that has been brought up to me by a fellow community member, and let me tell you, it shocked me. You may have saw this post, which is expressing valid concerns about the future of this server. It’s now been removed by the staff.

Why is this important?

But before we continue, lets look at some history of CivEx. I know many of you are new, so you may not be aware of the broader history of CivEx. Around nine months ago, there was an incident that accidently gave certain members of the community TeamSpeak administrative privileges and subsequently gain access to the IPs for every member of CivEx who ever used the TeamSpeak. Including my IP.

These certain members went as far as to doxx one of this community that they particularly disliked. This was a full on doxx that released her real name, phone number, a private picture of her, and the most horrendous, her physical address. They called her family members, her work, harassing her.

This was caused by an admin.

Don’t believe me? You should.

https://www.reddit.com/r/CivilizatonExperiment/comments/34c43w/chopsy_and_shocker_nv_have_been_permabanned_for/

Now let's look at another, more recent instance, the BK hack. In short members of BK gained access to the old head admin’s account, Phaxar, including access to the private staff subreddit with detailed server login information and backups. It happened because Phaxar used simple passwords that led to his account, the subreddit, and multiple private subreddits being compromised. Due to some delicate information on the staff sub, many feelings were hurt.

This was caused by an admin.

https://www.reddit.com/r/CivEx/comments/3jyv0n/the_staff_has_regained_control_over/

Now let's get back to the chase, why does this affect us now? Well, it's simple, people mess up. Human failure is okay, we all mess up sometimes. But it is up to ourselves to minimize the chances of us messing up. It’s like playing baseball with a hand grenade by a school. You don't mean to hurt anyone but, holy shit, you will hurt people and that's carelessness.

Now knowing this let's look at an admin who is currently playing hand grenade baseball, but instead of near a school, it's right on top of your personal information.

Devonmartino has access to a plugin that queries your minecraft folder for banned mods, and then saves the information for him to read later.

Now you may ask, why should I care? Well besides the obvious that he is infringing on your personal data WITHOUT your consent, he, or someone else with malicious intent could access your entire minecraft folder, your text logs and screenshots. One slip and all that information is out there. The simple thing is that you, at some point in time, will have some personal information in your minecraft folder and that information will be up for grabs. All it takes is one slip up or hack and it’s all out there for the public to see. Oh yeah, and if someone pulls the right strings, that harmless plugin might be looking through more than your .minecraft folder.

You say: “Hell, this is never going to happen, you’re some fucking fanatic.” Maybe so, but this has happened in the past, and we older CivEx players know history always, always repeats itself.

And hell, Devon may want to look at this information himself, if he hates you for calling him out on something. Or demands that community members know what information is being given to him, and wants revenge. He can talk and twist and play the poor mod all day, but at the end of it, he has access to your private and personal information AND is heavily involved with server drama. What’s stopping any staff from claiming that you had an illegal mod and banning you for six months?

Nobody in the history of CivEx has been banned for six months. That is wrong.

Oh and one final thing? This client scraping is highly immoral. But what if you have nothing to hide? If you have nothing to hide, you shouldn’t be afraid of this.

Sound familiar? Oh, hi NSA.

And just like the NSA to Snowden, the longtime player since 1.0 who found this subreddit, who found this information? Yep, he’s banned for a month for trying to tell his community. http://puu.sh/n3ciB/028432caa2.png

This isn’t okay. CivEx isn’t like this. We operate on proof, on visible proof that a user is using an illegal mod. Not some creepy in-house plugin that sniffs your information.

Isn’t that what you all lynched the last staff team for? Lack of proof? Why are you trusting that this screenshots and information is correct? Isn’t this just what the last staff posted when they banned Bonkill? Why do you trust that this plugin even exists? Why do you trust that these screenshots aren’t fake? Why do you trust the staff, who has proven over and over again that your information is not safe, to have access to your client files?

Is it because nobody is playing the “I’ve been framed” card?

Think for yourselves.

From a concerned community member,