The development staff is
always and
intentionally vague on the details for several reasons. All of this should be common sense, but its not something many spend time thinking about:
- To provide specific details gives the adversary an unnecessary advantage.
With enough details the cat-and-mouse game tips heavily in the adversary's favor. Bossland GmbH is not willing to make such details public, knowing that doing so will harm the Community.
- Bossland GmbH has a huge litigation target on its back.
Unlike all other bot makers, Bossland GmbH has refused to fold based on a lawsuit, or cease-and-desist order. Bossland GmbH has regularly defeated Bliz in court, and this makes Bliz even more aggressive. Two of the banwaves very strongly correlate with Bliz court defeats. This is probably not coincidence.
If Bliz ultimately defeats Bossland GmbH, then the Bliz legal resources will come to bear on the next popular bot maker. Right now, our competitors are benefiting from the legal shield being provided by Bossland. This is not only a Bliz legal resource issue, but an intentional legal tactic Bliz employs in an effort to crush Bossland GmbH. (We will not explain this further.)
- We know for a fact that Bliz reads the forums, and tries to glean information from the content.
Evidence presented at court confirms this. Much of their spyware efforts are targeted solely and directly at Honorbuddy. Our intentional ambiguity sends their analysis and spyware measures down paths we know will be fruitless. They have some gifted professional spyware-makers on their side. This keeps the cat-and-mouse game challenging. And occasionally, their brute force measures just get lucky, also.
- We do not want to give our Community a false sense of security.
Botting (ANY bot) is not safe, and we've always said so. Here it is yet again:
Bossland GmbH's ambiguity has the unfortuate but necessary consequence of keeping our Community in the dark about internal matters. People readily jump to wrong conclusions, and will read HUGE amounts into non-information. There are many posts in this thread and others that make this abundantly clear—posts filled with horrifying ignorance, and incorrect speculation couched as fact.
We make no attempts to squelch these posts, as they actually assist in misdirecting or creating 'noise' for our adversary. (Posts that break forum rules are another story.) Be aware that
only Bossland GmbH knows the facts; all else is nothing but opinion or speculation no matter how authoritatively it is stated. We suggest you think for yourself, and weigh the opinions and speculations appropriately. Arguing with such positions is a waste of time, unless such is your pastime.
cheers,
chinajade