Solve : Hiding Yourself from being online?

1.	Solve : Hiding Yourself from being online?
Answer» So here is the situation: You want to check/view facebook or play an online game and not be bothered by friends who want to chat or game with you. On Facebook the only method I have found is to run a Live Linux Distro of Linux Mint 9 LTS which allows you to view Facebook as well as you can post or reply to posts, but the Facebook scripting feature to show that I am online seems to malfunction so I can be on without disruptions and be a ghostly figure that slips in posts..LOL On World of Warcraft when the RealID feature came out I openly accepted almost all invites. Problem I have now is that I have a few people who want me to play with them every time I am on, and they are not accepting the fact that i want to just do my own thing every once in a while. Problem is that I am good friends with these people and so I dont want to remove them as RealID friends, but I want to be able to slip on and game without getting bothered when on a different realm and on an alt that they are not aware of that the RealID feature points me out no matter where I am either Diablo III, World of Warcraft, or Hearthstone. I found a possible solution by blocking traffic to blizzards server at 12.129.206.130 port 1119 for USA. However Windows XP Firewall stinks for trying to block traffic to this IP for inbound/outbound for port 1119. So I am going to try using Zonealarm for the first time in many years which I have been able to use in the past for better than Windows firewall however is there a better way to block traffic to remain hidden and enable/disable to show that I am online and willing to accept requests to communicate or disabled because I just want to be left alone. In general, the forum does not help people hide their on-line pretense. However, there are security reasons an individual may have the makes it necessary to hide his or her presence on a web site. For example, you might be a famous sports HERO and you just want to get on a friendly site without other people knowing who you are. So you would like to have some means to prevent personal information about you from leaving your computer. Hey, that is what a lot of people want! On way is to go over to your Grandma's house and use her old Windows 95 PC. Nobody would guess that it is you. Especially with that 33K dial up modem. Another idea. Just search BING for the French phrase: Hyde Mi Äss LOL at Geeks response and using dial-up at 33k Found a way to block it using a command with my router that is flashed with DD-WRT Was able to block battlenet Real ID by the following command run from the web interface to the router in advanced commands section in which you can run scripts or process a single line like I did: iptables -I FORWARD -p tcp --dport 1119 -j DROP This kills Battlenet communications but i can still log onto the game and play and chat in guild chat .... YAY!!! [recovering disk space, attachment DELETED by admin] Quote from: Geek-9pm on March 29, 2014, 11:57:59 PM Another idea. Just search Bing for the French phrase: What is this Bing you speak of? Is it a kind of fake Google? Quote from: Salmon Trout on March 30, 2014, 07:28:40 AM What is this Bing you speak of? Is it a kind of fake Google? YEAH, one of my jokes. I need a tag for sardonic remarks Like {begin sardonic} We are not supposed to help people protect themselses.. But try a Bing search for a French phrase... Cacher mon âne {end sardonic} just a little humor. Quote In general, the forum does not help people hide their on-line pretense. Yet another Geek Classic...Just wanted to share that this port block command instruction method in DD-WRT is not persistent, but can be, and I chose not to make it persistent so that to unblock the port block / cancel the instruction that was added to block port 1119 for all IP's, I simply just need reset the power to the router and it goes back to its original configuration prior to the command that I told the router to run for iptables. *Also for World of Warcraft, you need to log onto the game first before implementing this, since the authentication service of the game client uses port 1119 at the get go to authenticate with battle.net . Once you logon and are at your character screen, then you can implement the port block to 1119, and then select the realm or character you want to play on and you are hidden from view to others who would normally track/see you on battle.net's realID service. The realm you are on however if its the same realm as the other person playing that you are trying to hide from, and they have you on their friends list, they will still see you! So if they are on the same realm as you and you want to hide, you need to play on a different realm on a different character that they are unaware of. The traffic for chat communications / general and trade channels etc and tagging you as active in guild list and friends list may be using port 3724, but you cant kill this port and have the game run. This port seems to be shared with other data which is key to keeping the handshake between the game client and the server. I messed around with shutting off other ports that WoW uses to see what the impact was and the game wont function with the others blocked. So I guess I am fortunate that port 1119 was only used for RealID and Authentication, and that the Authentication is a 1 time handshake requirement, since once you are authenticated, you can sever this port, and your connection thread is handed over to another process that allows for you to navigate between realms and characters of multiple blade servers in data centers hosting the realms around the world.

Answer»

So here is the situation:

You want to check/view facebook or play an online game and not be bothered by friends who want to chat or game with you.

On Facebook the only method I have found is to run a Live Linux Distro of Linux Mint 9 LTS which allows you to view Facebook as well as you can post or reply to posts, but the Facebook scripting feature to show that I am online seems to malfunction so I can be on without disruptions and be a ghostly figure that slips in posts..LOL

On World of Warcraft when the RealID feature came out I openly accepted almost all invites. Problem I have now is that I have a few people who want me to play with them every time I am on, and they are not accepting the fact that i want to just do my own thing every once in a while. Problem is that I am good friends with these people and so I dont want to remove them as RealID friends, but I want to be able to slip on and game without getting bothered when on a different realm and on an alt that they are not aware of that the RealID feature points me out no matter where I am either Diablo III, World of Warcraft, or Hearthstone.

I found a possible solution by blocking traffic to blizzards server at 12.129.206.130 port 1119 for USA. However Windows XP Firewall stinks for trying to block traffic to this IP for inbound/outbound for port 1119.

So I am going to try using Zonealarm for the first time in many years which I have been able to use in the past for better than Windows firewall however is there a better way to block traffic to remain hidden and enable/disable to show that I am online and willing to accept requests to communicate or disabled because I just want to be left alone. In general, the forum does not help people hide their on-line pretense.
However, there are security reasons an individual may have the makes it necessary to hide his or her presence on a web site.

For example, you might be a famous sports HERO and you just want to get on a friendly site without other people knowing who you are. So you would like to have some means to prevent personal information about you from leaving your computer. Hey, that is what a lot of people want!

On way is to go over to your Grandma's house and use her old Windows 95 PC. Nobody would guess that it is you. Especially with that 33K dial up modem.

Another idea. Just search BING for the French phrase:
Hyde Mi Äss

LOL at Geeks response and using dial-up at 33k

Found a way to block it using a command with my router that is flashed with DD-WRT

Was able to block battlenet Real ID by the following command run from the web interface to the router in advanced commands section in which you can run scripts or process a single line like I did:

iptables -I FORWARD -p tcp --dport 1119 -j DROP

This kills Battlenet communications but i can still log onto the game and play and chat in guild chat .... YAY!!!

[recovering disk space, attachment DELETED by admin] Quote from: Geek-9pm on March 29, 2014, 11:57:59 PM

Another idea. Just search Bing for the French phrase:

What is this Bing you speak of? Is it a kind of fake Google?
Quote from: Salmon Trout on March 30, 2014, 07:28:40 AM

What is this Bing you speak of? Is it a kind of fake Google?

YEAH, one of my jokes. I need a tag for sardonic remarks
Like
{begin sardonic}

We are not supposed to help people protect themselses..
But try a Bing search for a French phrase...
Cacher mon âne

{end sardonic}
just a little humor.
Quote

In general, the forum does not help people hide their on-line pretense.

Yet another Geek Classic...Just wanted to share that this port block command instruction method in DD-WRT is not persistent, but can be, and I chose not to make it persistent so that to unblock the port block / cancel the instruction that was added to block port 1119 for all IP's, I simply just need reset the power to the router and it goes back to its original configuration prior to the command that I told the router to run for iptables.

*Also for World of Warcraft, you need to log onto the game first before implementing this, since the authentication service of the game client uses port 1119 at the get go to authenticate with battle.net . Once you logon and are at your character screen, then you can implement the port block to 1119, and then select the realm or character you want to play on and you are hidden from view to others who would normally track/see you on battle.net's realID service.

The realm you are on however if its the same realm as the other person playing that you are trying to hide from, and they have you on their friends list, they will still see you!

So if they are on the same realm as you and you want to hide, you need to play on a different realm on a different character that they are unaware of.

The traffic for chat communications / general and trade channels etc and tagging you as active in guild list and friends list may be using port 3724, but you cant kill this port and have the game run. This port seems to be shared with other data which is key to keeping the handshake between the game client and the server.

I messed around with shutting off other ports that WoW uses to see what the impact was and the game wont function with the others blocked. So I guess I am fortunate that port 1119 was only used for RealID and Authentication, and that the Authentication is a 1 time handshake requirement, since once you are authenticated, you can sever this port, and your connection thread is handed over to another process that allows for you to navigate between realms and characters of multiple blade servers in data centers hosting the realms around the world.

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