Re: How secure are Yahoo games and IMs?
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By "they" I mean other players at the table. I don't really feel this is a threat, i'm just curious if they can monitor the traffic and get everyone's IP's at the table who they are playing with, such as when they ping them or send an IM, or if Yahoo hides this information.
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As far as getting your IP from being at the same table as you, no. Yahoo games works on a client server model. If the players performed a netstat -a while playing, all they would see is a tcp connection to Yahoo. With regard to IMs, no, they cannot receive your IP address for the reason mentioned previously. The exact same thing will happen. If you use yahoo's version of direct connect, this changes things - it opens up a port on your machine and allows the other host to connect directly to you via a socket. You honestly have nothing to worry about. Most of the people who play those yahoo games are too stupid to be toilet trained, nevermind "hack" into your computer.
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