UPDATE: Double counter did a MASSIVE update that addresses all of the privacy issues. - They have a way to opt out of the lens feature, both for a whole server and for a user across discord - AND, if you request to delete your data, you WILL NOT get banned! Nathan, the owner of double counter, turned this around immaculately. Massive respect and props to him. And thank you all for being constructive with your feedback and coming to this result. Friendly reminder, these vulnerabilities were disclosed and FIXED before this video. From the Double Counter announcement and from what I saw, this was never exploited in the wild.
@@infinitehexingtonthis is HILARIOUS I'm rolling in the floor LaugGING HAAhHAHAhaaHHaggsASAAAS 😊😹😊😊😊😊😊😊😊 😂😂😂😂😅😅😂🤣😂😂😅😂😂😂😅😂 AG also stop liking this trash comment ty
@@infinitehexington Wrong. It just means "it works" it says nothing about reliability or durability. It's cheaply made, mass-produced junk. There's a lot of data and articles on this. It's marketing speech, nothing else.
@@infinitehexington severely tested doesn't mean it works, Russia for example during early WW2 tested their main battle tanks... And only 8% of them passed inspections. 8%, nearly 1/10 tanks actually worked as intended for as long as intended. That's a horrible percentage, yet they were cheap enough that you could outproduce the German tanks, and the armor wasn't the part that was failing, so like hey, it'll do for the time being... And then they never actually fixed the problem, with their tanks getting shredded in the later half of the war, as Germans upgraded their guns. Russia, throwing more bodies at the problem instead of actually fixing it since basically forever.
As a programmer who works with secrets and api-keys I am amazed at the sheer stupidity of double-counter. Like its honestly impressive that they are making these mistakes 💀💀 Ima nerd out here so you can skip this: sending API requests to private API (discord's API in this case) with your own private API key from the clients side is wild and should never be done (Its commen-sense/cyber-sec 101). Edit: People (roblox script kiddies) in the comments are waging a war over if I am a "real" programer. I am a programer; I am a full stack dev and code/work with Node.js, Typescript, Next.js, Nest.js, Redis, Mongo DB, SQL, python, etc. And i do in-fact work with secrets and api-keys that need to be kept hidden and protected properly. Edit 2: I started a war in the comments 💀
you're NOT a programmer you just know python/html lmfaoo edit: seems I have upset some python "programmers", what I meant is he doesn't know actual hard programming is, he just knows python/html and those are not hard, don't cry python fans ❤️
ever since i heard someone say that "military-grade" actually just means serviceable, i haven't been able to take any of those claims seriously anymore
Here's the thing: authorization is super easy to implement nowadays. Yet for some reason they thought basic clientsided encryption is the best way to secure their application. NEVER put any sort of security logic on the client, because it will be figured out one way or another. I hope everybody ditches this bot and never uses it again, because this is yet another example of idiots with some programming knowledge putting others at risk.
Here's the thing: authorization is super easy to implement nowadays. Yet for some reason they thought basic clientsided encryption is the best way to secure their application. NEVER put any sort of security logic on the client, because it will be figured out one way or another. I hope everybody ditches this bot and never uses it again, because this is yet another example of idiots with some programming knowledge putting others at risk.
I'm absolutely no Lawyer but Double Counter Lens sounds like its gonna violate the GDPR if the user does'nt explicitly agree to have his behavior tracked and data shared
guess what? i join a random server who has the bot. I have dm turned off by default. bot can't show me the notification about tracking. i dont browse all the channels. one day i notice my data on internet. the place where i work offers me free lawyer. i sue and make money. w
I wouldn't even give *my own bot that I programmed myself* admin privileges. It doesn't need it, i'll just add the least amount of permissions I need for it to work properly
@@TRLTheRandomLab same, is very easy (but time consuming) to run a token generator and guess the token of a bot. any bot can be hacked and ppl should be aware of this
@@AEGIS-RED-MEGA-VIEWS Theoretically yes, but there are so many possibilities that it will never practically happen (it would take trillions of years on average to get a single valid token) even if you could guess a million tokens per second without being rate limited
@@Schmaggleschticker Almost every bot requests this. I deny every single permission and create my own role. I'm not going to have every bot with its own role. They're just going to have a bot role.
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So far, Discord bot developers are the only ones that seem able to take the cake from WordPress plugin developers in terms of outrageously stupid vulnerabilities.
as a cybersec guy myself, while i do specialize mostly in maldev, evasion, gamehacking and binary exploitation, i'm really considering finding vulnerabilities in stuff like this cuz of this
Unless the service you are auditing specifically has a bug bounty up, don't. If they don't have a bug bounty and you find a vulnerability they'll probably just sue you instead of fixing it. article about it: aHR0cHM6Ly9yb2JkeWtlLmNvbS9ob3d0by1kaXNjbG9zZS8=
That lens thing honestly sounds like it's illegal in Europe. GDPR states users must explicitly consent to all tracking (not just cookies). Not sure if this being a discord bot is some kind of loophole though, I'm no expert.
I want to say that while what you mentioned would be definitely be bad, if you have a bots client secret you can essentially just write your own code and feed it that secret and you control the bot. I'm not sure why this wasn't mentioned, because with a bot's clientid you can just write code to have it loop through every server, ban every player, delete every message... you get the idea. While its certainly more fun and chaotic to give everyone admin if someone actually wanted to do damage they could have wiped every server this bot was in with some very simple code
No, I believe you're mistaken. The client secret is not what you use to write code for the bot. You need a bot token for authorization, which is not the same thing as the client secret.
there's 3 of those values for a bot, the token = private, used to authenticate for the rest api and gateway api, the client id = public, used to identify the bot the client secret = used for oauth2 the client secret can only be used for some things, such as authorizing an oauth2 access code of someone.
Fun fact: Double counter will also ban you from any servers you try to join if you happen to have a sibling or someone else on your wifi network that also uses discord because it thinks you're an alt account
Apparently it saves which account is associated with the IP. Meaning 1 user per IP. If you need to create a new account, or as you said, multiple people on the same network, you can only do 1 account. IPs aren't exclusive per user and can sometimes change.
@@Liggliluffthat is a trash verification system lul you can just restart your router to get a new IP an than log into a different account with a different gmail..
i love how when you said that eva got paid when reporting the bug, and you said "so its worth being a good citizen, since you might get ...", an ad just played omg an ad for payment! awesome! (i just find the timing to be rly comedic)
As someone who's made a few Discord bots, this is embarrassing. I have no clue how you write this code and don't expect something terrible. I'm not an expert, I'm not even smart. I'm just in awe. I hesitate to call the second issue a vulnerability, it's more like a backdoor. If you're using this bot, stop using it immediately.
EDIT: Other developers in the comments are getting doubt about their legitimacy. There's a mod I've made that includes a Discord bot, video tutorials and github link on my channel.
Imagine how bad it'd be if some kid got into a massive server with this bot, and just took over? It'd be pretty bad.. Anyways, it's always a good day when NTTS posts. Keep up the good work, you impress me everytime!
Giving admin is a child's play. At that point you had the power to delete all channels indiscriminately, and ban absolutely everyone in those thousands of servers. Could even sort servers by member count and target the large ones first.
The real issue with the "military grade" term is that it's overused to the point that it no longer has the same meaning. I mean, HTTPS technically uses "military grade" encryption, and while VPN providers also have it as their main selling point, they're also not technically wrong, which is how they keep getting away from being accused of false advertising. As Tom Scott used to describe VPN providers overusing the term: "is the sort of marketing that scares people into buying something they might not need".
@@Schmaggleschticker Usually refers to stuff "made to military specifications" what's really funny about this is that a lot of the stuff the military uses is actual garbage and civilians have access to far better equipment...
I'm not sure this lens thing really complies with the EU's GRPD, you can't just gather user data without asking first, and you certainly cannot do this without giving the user an option to refuse having its data gathered or an option to have it removed. And apart from that yeah it's true that we don't act the same everywhere on discord, I act like a complete moron on friends servers and we ban each other for fun, so that rating system is kinda broken
DAMN this is like horrible i hate being tracked on discord or any platform and literally double counter is doing the worst thing ever like people gonna switch to different discord bots for sure and i myself gonna leave servers that use double counter dont want to get tracked by the stupidity of the devs.
I've recently found out about DC when I accidentally clicked on a setting while setting up my emote server and oh boy the bot seems quite aggressive with the tracking and stuff even without the lens feature. Granted, before it's mostly to verify if you're an alt or not for that specific server but it still doesn't look good
Programmer with engineering degree here. I've seen some code and this here is worse than code from students that i've seen. To those who don't know too much stuff about programming: Most websites are built using Three-Tier Architecture (or in simpler words, are using three different "components" to work). Basically that goes down to three tiers: - Presentation tier (what you see, all the shiny stuff) - Application tier (processing of the data, etc) - Databse tier (database and "back-end" stuff) And most important here is the back-end stuff. The back-end is simply just a "brain" of the web application. Back-end processes vulnerable data and HAVE TO BE HIDDEN AT ALL TIMES! There are languages that hide code automatically (or simply you don't have access to it because server won't let you) and they are used to create back-end of the application. Here, they simply put some of the back-end stuff in the front-end code (and this should never happen in the first place - and certainly NOT ENTIRE ID's AND OTHER DATA). Literally they made this code so bad I'm thinking it may be intentional - because it's really hard to mess up back-end that bad (back-end code is hidden by default)
I really love when people say "Military Grade" on something, since Military Grade stuff is generally outsourced to the cheapest producer and mass produced for millions of soldiers. you want PMC Grade gear, that's the good shit.
I wonder how they'd respond to a well-phrased, perfectly legal, ask for a GDPR data export. Not a "do not track me and ban me" a simple "Hey, what data did you actually collect about me ? Gimme." It would probably be enlightning to know.
I'd love to be a fly on the wall if they got a lawyer to explain the requirements to them, there would be a lot of shouting because of the total illegality of the coerced consent.
I'm a web developer and seeing this makes me absolutely palm my face... face my palm (wait what?!). The fact that they used this encrypted server ID as a verification which was also generated on the client... Rule #1 of web dev: Never trust the client. They are logged in. Use the session or JWT to verify the permissons WTF?! It's that easy
@@theronejose if the names are put on a list, they don't realise, and then go on holiday, they'll find themselves in deep shit the moment they present their passport to a border officer.
Another issue with letting bots have full control over servers. Why don't people learn? Why did NTTS not say anything about how Double Counter _should not_ be an administrator. If all it does is: give roles, kick and ban users. Then it should only have those roles. It should not have the roles to modify channels, rename users, and more. Plus if you want to use Double Counter for verification but not banning, you could prevent it from banning users. This also means that if a user wants their data deleted, Double Counter can't ban that user from your server.
So, this bot immediately starts tracking you as a user when you join a server that contains it, probably without you specifically getting a prompt to agree to such terms (especially with auto-verification)? Oh European Union!
that last point made with double lense would be a big issue with how I run my discord, I tap people on the wrist for cursing or caps spam, few seconds mute get their attention and a message just keep it in mind to reduce the amount cursing and caps, I've had people trigger it a lot and to me its not that big a deal but dam their DSCS would get destroyed
We just added this bot about a week ago, and I saw that it wanted Administrator privilege... I didn't give it that privilege to see if it would function fine without it... and it does. The only thing that it can't do without it is give us server statistics, and we don't care about that. I also put Double Counter's role below all of our moderator roles. I am glad we were careful about that now that I have seen this, though it's good to know that they patched those issues.
Double Counter is the worst bot out there. You get banned on Discord for spamming or something? "Oh you're an alt, and also we can't help you undo the considered alt even thought it's literally a deleted account" they ruin the discord experience because they have no way of support. All of their support for help is js left to a dead end. DOWN WITH DOUBLE COUNTER!!
This is why i make sure any bot roles are below any roles with permissions. Better yet if you put all your integration roles (bot roles) to the bottom of all your roles it is the best place for security reasons. I also don't use verification bots anymore but rather just let people in using discord's own system and if we get raided i just pause invites for 24 hours and investigate to see what link is being used to raid the server and then delete it. If it's disboard or something i'll just make the listing private and remake the invite.
This bot runs off ip so if you live with someone that has been authorised by this bot that means you can't join a single server it is and it's support doesn't give two damns and say "Welp your problem not ours"
By the way, the developer plans to give the Lens feature an opt-out and also wipe anything that was collected before then towards Sunday or so. The whole idea was one huge GDPR infarction waiting but hats off to the dev
bet his intentions were good, but he doesn't realize he can end up in jail for such things, this, only if his bot makes him money, else nobody would bother too much
@@Liggliluff You will be able to opt out of the Lens system as both an user and a server without going through that ban thing. And that ban thing was also misworded - you weren't going to get banned off the servers, only that DC wouldn't be able to verify you anymore, meaning that you would have to be manually verified by the server staff if DC is being used
@@chairedgethe ban thing is still up and it is very very clearly worded. The only clear way to stop it from sending any account it doesn't like to the gulag would be to stop it from banning people entirely.
its kind of funny how there is some random group of people making bots controlling people across servers with tracking and stuff while discords sits there and watches.
If you use AES, SHA or HMAC (all widely used and basically the standard), you are using "military-grade". You still need to implement them correctly, but the algorhithms themselfs are top tier. That is what "Military-Grade" means in software security every single time. Use it as a warning label, if someone calls his security features "military-grade", he is either trying to deceive you or doesn't know much about security/cryptography.
double counter is still a seriously annoying bot. the amount of servers I have been kicked off for an alt account i dont even own, and then when i try to contact double counter to let me through, THEY BAN ME FROM EVERY SINGLE SERVER USING DOUBLE COUNTER.
We're now at a point in time where everything is using at least military grade encryption. Sometimes more. Tranditionally, military grade = AES256. So this means that if you seen https in your browser's address bar, you're using AES (advanced encryption standard). Which basically means everything is using military grade encryption.
this tool seems very intrusive in general. it does seem useful to be able to detect alt accounts, however, i would never want to automatically ban them. most of the time, in my experience, alt accounts are actually just kids/tech illiterate people who forgot their pw/forgot they made an account already... not to mention the case of a shared ip address between multiple people. and honestly the usefulness doesn't outweigh my regard for people's privacy anyway...
he makes a security bot that can be essential for some servers and desides to sometimes just dont think faar and just do stuff. also the amount of small thing he dont bothers about. like this banning thing for deleting your data as law forces them to if you request it. its just a "screw you, we dont bother because you dont play into our cards" solution. or giving the bot admin when inviting it even trough thats risky and the bot only needs permission that are avable as role permission. yeah just implementing a monitoring feature that has several flaws that make it partly useless. but then advertising your bot whit a huge claim. its hard to tell if all this stuff is intentional but if it is then this is just careless
The "military grade protection" on the internet may not be as flattering as it seems because we all know that the military still uses 20 year old computers
Yeah that lens feature can’t be legal (under GDPR) On another note, I’ve known about this exploit for over a year, so now I can finally say why I wouldn’t let the community use this bot. 😂
has no one learned their lesson from that Minecraft plugin that banned you globally if you got banned on more than 2 servers that had the plugin installed? bad actors would just make two fake Minecraft servers then ban someone from both lol. I imagine something similar might happen if you piss off a mod/admin that mods multiple discord servers
Gross bot, even I know how to hide a token, like it literally grants access to the *entire* bot, which can be very bad if the bot has enough permissions, so the way they just had it in plain sight is ridiculous
I've reported bugs to a somewhat popular bot's developer and the only thing I got in exchange was 3 months of the bot's Premium subscription (equivalent to 15€)... that I couldn't fully use because the developer banned me from using most of the bot's features.
"military grade" is not only a gimmick, but often times much worse than enthusiast grade or literally almost anything civilian. I've never been military, but plenty of my coworkers and friends are, alongside some of my family. That terminology means nothing good.
UPDATE: Double counter did a MASSIVE update that addresses all of the privacy issues.
- They have a way to opt out of the lens feature, both for a whole server and for a user across discord
- AND, if you request to delete your data, you WILL NOT get banned!
Nathan, the owner of double counter, turned this around immaculately. Massive respect and props to him. And thank you all for being constructive with your feedback and coming to this result.
Friendly reminder, these vulnerabilities were disclosed and FIXED before this video. From the Double Counter announcement and from what I saw, this was never exploited in the wild.
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Nice to hear!
The fact that they ban you from every single server that uses DC just because you don't wanna be tracked is actually insane. Bottom tier company
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True, if i would've use that bot, the bot would now just fly out of my Server or getting those permissions rewoked at the very least
Sounds like someone got banned and is coping 😂
@@infinitehexingtonthis is HILARIOUS I'm rolling in the floor LaugGING HAAhHAHAhaaHHaggsASAAAS 😊😹😊😊😊😊😊😊😊 😂😂😂😂😅😅😂🤣😂😂😅😂😂😂😅😂 AG
also stop liking this trash comment ty
low tier bait @@infinitehexington
People seem to forget that "Military grade" just means mass produced by the cheapest bidder
Nope, military grade means severely tested
Average "military grade" person
@@infinitehexington Military grade means "something the military might use"
That's the actual definition.
@@infinitehexington Wrong. It just means "it works" it says nothing about reliability or durability.
It's cheaply made, mass-produced junk. There's a lot of data and articles on this.
It's marketing speech, nothing else.
@@infinitehexington severely tested doesn't mean it works, Russia for example during early WW2 tested their main battle tanks... And only 8% of them passed inspections. 8%, nearly 1/10 tanks actually worked as intended for as long as intended. That's a horrible percentage, yet they were cheap enough that you could outproduce the German tanks, and the armor wasn't the part that was failing, so like hey, it'll do for the time being... And then they never actually fixed the problem, with their tanks getting shredded in the later half of the war, as Germans upgraded their guns. Russia, throwing more bodies at the problem instead of actually fixing it since basically forever.
"Military grade" never means "good" to those with actual military experience
Relatable ( I didn't go to the military )
Yeah, some “military grade” things such as certain weapons are complete garbage
military grade means cheapest bidder
Military grade is just the fancy way of saying 'impressively cheap'
Military grade = overpriced and underdelivered
As an individual with no servers i see this as an absolute win.
W for us :)
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me too, i mostly use groups
As an individual with no servers i see this as an absolute win:
As a non bot server with no verification i see this as an opinion invalid
As a programmer who works with secrets and api-keys I am amazed at the sheer stupidity of double-counter. Like its honestly impressive that they are making these mistakes 💀💀
Ima nerd out here so you can skip this: sending API requests to private API (discord's API in this case) with your own private API key from the clients side is wild and should never be done (Its commen-sense/cyber-sec 101).
Edit: People (roblox script kiddies) in the comments are waging a war over if I am a "real" programer. I am a programer; I am a full stack dev and code/work with Node.js, Typescript, Next.js, Nest.js, Redis, Mongo DB, SQL, python, etc. And i do in-fact work with secrets and api-keys that need to be kept hidden and protected properly.
Edit 2: I started a war in the comments 💀
you're NOT a programmer you just know python/html lmfaoo
edit: seems I have upset some python "programmers", what I meant is he doesn't know actual hard programming is, he just knows python/html and those are not hard,
don't cry python fans ❤️
@@teddythecat0you stupid knowing any programming language and able to use them is called programming shit you are lmao go and eat your a**
@@teddythecat0 Since python isn't considered a lang bro.
@@teddythecat0What makes you think so, lol?
@@teddythecat0don't broke other heart lmao btw I know html css Java script c , c++, sharp, vbs,go
ever since i heard someone say that "military-grade" actually just means serviceable, i haven't been able to take any of those claims seriously anymore
as someone with relatives who were in military service: "Military grade" just means the cheapest one that works well enough
Here's the thing: authorization is super easy to implement nowadays. Yet for some reason they thought basic clientsided encryption is the best way to secure their application. NEVER put any sort of security logic on the client, because it will be figured out one way or another. I hope everybody ditches this bot and never uses it again, because this is yet another example of idiots with some programming knowledge putting others at risk.
You should look at Rec Room’s security lmao
#1 rule when developing in client-server environments: Never trust the client, or give the client things you don't want others to use.
@@Coder_Tavi istg their bot is being run and coded by 3 dogs in a trechcoat
Here's the thing: authorization is super easy to implement nowadays. Yet for some reason they thought basic clientsided encryption is the best way to secure their application. NEVER put any sort of security logic on the client, because it will be figured out one way or another. I hope everybody ditches this bot and never uses it again, because this is yet another example of idiots with some programming knowledge putting others at risk.
@@varram3488 Nah it's being run by 2 kangaroos in a puffer
I'm absolutely no Lawyer but Double Counter Lens sounds like its gonna violate the GDPR if the user does'nt explicitly agree to have his behavior tracked and data shared
guess what? i join a random server who has the bot. I have dm turned off by default. bot can't show me the notification about tracking. i dont browse all the channels. one day i notice my data on internet. the place where i work offers me free lawyer. i sue and make money. w
I am 99% sure you can tell them to remove ALL your data or request it
@@Sir_Trollman and like in this video is said, get your account banned from all 400 thousand.
@@gay4femboys they cannot ban you for using your rights
@@Sir_Trollman Can't request your data to be deleted if you don't know you're being tracked.
The moment I heard "This bot has Administrative privileges" my face almost went through my desk.
STOP GIVING BOTS ADMIN
ikr like bot only have to see you on a server and thats it
I wouldn't even give *my own bot that I programmed myself* admin privileges. It doesn't need it, i'll just add the least amount of permissions I need for it to work properly
@@TRLTheRandomLab same, is very easy (but time consuming) to run a token generator and guess the token of a bot. any bot can be hacked and ppl should be aware of this
@@AEGIS-RED-MEGA-VIEWS Theoretically yes, but there are so many possibilities that it will never practically happen (it would take trillions of years on average to get a single valid token) even if you could guess a million tokens per second without being rate limited
@@Schmaggleschticker Almost every bot requests this. I deny every single permission and create my own role. I'm not going to have every bot with its own role. They're just going to have a bot role.
So far, Discord bot developers are the only ones that seem able to take the cake from WordPress plugin developers in terms of outrageously stupid vulnerabilities.
Military grade just means the cheapest that works
as a cybersec guy myself, while i do specialize mostly in maldev, evasion, gamehacking and binary exploitation, i'm really considering finding vulnerabilities in stuff like this cuz of this
Unless the service you are auditing specifically has a bug bounty up, don't. If they don't have a bug bounty and you find a vulnerability they'll probably just sue you instead of fixing it.
article about it: aHR0cHM6Ly9yb2JkeWtlLmNvbS9ob3d0by1kaXNjbG9zZS8=
That bot can destroy discord predator server
Frfr
That lens thing honestly sounds like it's illegal in Europe. GDPR states users must explicitly consent to all tracking (not just cookies). Not sure if this being a discord bot is some kind of loophole though, I'm no expert.
Sounds like the kind of thing that should be illegal everywhere, tbh.
they can probably argue its legal because its not personally identifiable information or some bullshit
@@Milenakos how do i not know it store my ip? discord after all it reads user's ip
@@AEGIS-RED-MEGA-VIEWS ips arent read off to bots
@@Milenakos also hello milenakos :3
I've never heard of this bot, but I think it's great that I don't use this bot.
great sellout
hi prom!!!!
I want to say that while what you mentioned would be definitely be bad, if you have a bots client secret you can essentially just write your own code and feed it that secret and you control the bot. I'm not sure why this wasn't mentioned, because with a bot's clientid you can just write code to have it loop through every server, ban every player, delete every message... you get the idea. While its certainly more fun and chaotic to give everyone admin if someone actually wanted to do damage they could have wiped every server this bot was in with some very simple code
@@gorilla_gorl you are right, I meant the bots client secret. ill update it.
No, I believe you're mistaken. The client secret is not what you use to write code for the bot. You need a bot token for authorization, which is not the same thing as the client secret.
there's 3 of those values for a bot,
the token = private, used to authenticate for the rest api and gateway api,
the client id = public, used to identify the bot
the client secret = used for oauth2
the client secret can only be used for some things, such as authorizing an oauth2 access code of someone.
Because what was leaked wasn't the bot token. It was the application client secret, which is different - you cannot control a bot with it.
Fun fact: Double counter will also ban you from any servers you try to join if you happen to have a sibling or someone else on your wifi network that also uses discord because it thinks you're an alt account
Apparently it saves which account is associated with the IP. Meaning 1 user per IP. If you need to create a new account, or as you said, multiple people on the same network, you can only do 1 account. IPs aren't exclusive per user and can sometimes change.
@@Liggliluffthat is a trash verification system lul you can just restart your router to get a new IP an than log into a different account with a different gmail..
@@trentonking764 or release and renew WAN IP
i love how when you said that eva got paid when reporting the bug, and you said "so its worth being a good citizen, since you might get ...", an ad just played
omg an ad for payment! awesome!
(i just find the timing to be rly comedic)
As a person who doesnt use Double counter, I see this as an absolute win.
As someone who's made a few Discord bots, this is embarrassing. I have no clue how you write this code and don't expect something terrible. I'm not an expert, I'm not even smart. I'm just in awe. I hesitate to call the second issue a vulnerability, it's more like a backdoor. If you're using this bot, stop using it immediately.
EDIT: Other developers in the comments are getting doubt about their legitimacy. There's a mod I've made that includes a Discord bot, video tutorials and github link on my channel.
It's about the same level of competency as demanding you accept sitewide tracking (by a third party no less) on pain of mass banning.
Imagine how bad it'd be if some kid got into a massive server with this bot, and just took over? It'd be pretty bad..
Anyways, it's always a good day when NTTS posts. Keep up the good work, you impress me everytime!
Giving admin is a child's play. At that point you had the power to delete all channels indiscriminately, and ban absolutely everyone in those thousands of servers. Could even sort servers by member count and target the large ones first.
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The real issue with the "military grade" term is that it's overused to the point that it no longer has the same meaning. I mean, HTTPS technically uses "military grade" encryption, and while VPN providers also have it as their main selling point, they're also not technically wrong, which is how they keep getting away from being accused of false advertising.
As Tom Scott used to describe VPN providers overusing the term: "is the sort of marketing that scares people into buying something they might not need".
@@Schmaggleschticker Usually refers to stuff "made to military specifications" what's really funny about this is that a lot of the stuff the military uses is actual garbage and civilians have access to far better equipment...
Petition for Double Counter to remove "military-grade" from their title
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That Double Counter Lens thing is making me feel like a goddamn star, GOTTA LOVE BEING STALKED BY BOTS!
I'm not sure this lens thing really complies with the EU's GRPD, you can't just gather user data without asking first, and you certainly cannot do this without giving the user an option to refuse having its data gathered or an option to have it removed.
And apart from that yeah it's true that we don't act the same everywhere on discord, I act like a complete moron on friends servers and we ban each other for fun, so that rating system is kinda broken
I've been subscribed to NTTS since you had 2.7k subs i think, these videos are getting better and funnier. keep it up!
DAMN this is like horrible i hate being tracked on discord or any platform and literally double counter is doing the worst thing ever like people gonna switch to different discord bots for sure and i myself gonna leave servers that use double counter dont want to get tracked by the stupidity of the devs.
Alternate title for this video:
"Reporting" this server breaking bug by absolutely abusing it.
I've recently found out about DC when I accidentally clicked on a setting while setting up my emote server and oh boy the bot seems quite aggressive with the tracking and stuff even without the lens feature. Granted, before it's mostly to verify if you're an alt or not for that specific server but it still doesn't look good
Programmer with engineering degree here.
I've seen some code and this here is worse than code from students that i've seen.
To those who don't know too much stuff about programming:
Most websites are built using Three-Tier Architecture (or in simpler words, are using three different "components" to work). Basically that goes down to three tiers:
- Presentation tier (what you see, all the shiny stuff)
- Application tier (processing of the data, etc)
- Databse tier (database and "back-end" stuff)
And most important here is the back-end stuff. The back-end is simply just a "brain" of the web application. Back-end processes vulnerable data and HAVE TO BE HIDDEN AT ALL TIMES!
There are languages that hide code automatically (or simply you don't have access to it because server won't let you) and they are used to create back-end of the application.
Here, they simply put some of the back-end stuff in the front-end code (and this should never happen in the first place - and certainly NOT ENTIRE ID's AND OTHER DATA).
Literally they made this code so bad I'm thinking it may be intentional - because it's really hard to mess up back-end that bad (back-end code is hidden by default)
A naked man fears no pickpocket.
Props to Blahaj girls for making NTTS videos possible
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The outside for NTTS is just a painted basement room with felt on the floors & walls. X} Good content yo.
Honestly, military-grade is perfectly apt to describe this.
I really love when people say "Military Grade" on something, since Military Grade stuff is generally outsourced to the cheapest producer and mass produced for millions of soldiers. you want PMC Grade gear, that's the good shit.
"Military Grade"
Civilians - :D
Military - D:
i cannot believe they #1 had an exposed key, and #2 had a very very simple authentication method for setting sensitive values
This was the most funny video of your career.
I wonder how they'd respond to a well-phrased, perfectly legal, ask for a GDPR data export. Not a "do not track me and ban me" a simple "Hey, what data did you actually collect about me ? Gimme."
It would probably be enlightning to know.
I'd love to be a fly on the wall if they got a lawyer to explain the requirements to them, there would be a lot of shouting because of the total illegality of the coerced consent.
I'm a web developer and seeing this makes me absolutely palm my face... face my palm (wait what?!).
The fact that they used this encrypted server ID as a verification which was also generated on the client... Rule #1 of web dev: Never trust the client.
They are logged in. Use the session or JWT to verify the permissons WTF?! It's that easy
another good day when ntts uploads
"Some people just don't understand the dangers of mass surveillance."
7:58 isnt that breaking european laws about privacy? they could literally end up in jail, even that their intentions were to actually protect users
Theyre not in europe so they cant be jailed
Not everyone lives in Europe 🤦♂️
@@theronejose if the names are put on a list, they don't realise, and then go on holiday, they'll find themselves in deep shit the moment they present their passport to a border officer.
new editing style wild
Another issue with letting bots have full control over servers. Why don't people learn? Why did NTTS not say anything about how Double Counter _should not_ be an administrator. If all it does is: give roles, kick and ban users. Then it should only have those roles. It should not have the roles to modify channels, rename users, and more.
Plus if you want to use Double Counter for verification but not banning, you could prevent it from banning users. This also means that if a user wants their data deleted, Double Counter can't ban that user from your server.
Ah, but that would mean the credit score opt-out punishment wouldn't work, and that would be a bad thing! (lies)
@@aidenstanley7305 at least they went back on that idea
So, this bot immediately starts tracking you as a user when you join a server that contains it, probably without you specifically getting a prompt to agree to such terms (especially with auto-verification)?
Oh European Union!
Double Counter Lens smells like a GDPR violation
I can't wait for someone to figure out how to get the developer of Double Counter banned by their own bot!
lol
that last point made with double lense would be a big issue with how I run my discord, I tap people on the wrist for cursing or caps spam, few seconds mute get their attention and a message just keep it in mind to reduce the amount cursing and caps, I've had people trigger it a lot and to me its not that big a deal but dam their DSCS would get destroyed
This is really MILITARY GRADE preformance.
We just added this bot about a week ago, and I saw that it wanted Administrator privilege... I didn't give it that privilege to see if it would function fine without it... and it does. The only thing that it can't do without it is give us server statistics, and we don't care about that. I also put Double Counter's role below all of our moderator roles. I am glad we were careful about that now that I have seen this, though it's good to know that they patched those issues.
Double Counter is the worst bot out there. You get banned on Discord for spamming or something? "Oh you're an alt, and also we can't help you undo the considered alt even thought it's literally a deleted account" they ruin the discord experience because they have no way of support. All of their support for help is js left to a dead end. DOWN WITH DOUBLE COUNTER!!
So they had all the logic in the frontend of their website. XD.
This is why i make sure any bot roles are below any roles with permissions. Better yet if you put all your integration roles (bot roles) to the bottom of all your roles it is the best place for security reasons. I also don't use verification bots anymore but rather just let people in using discord's own system and if we get raided i just pause invites for 24 hours and investigate to see what link is being used to raid the server and then delete it. If it's disboard or something i'll just make the listing private and remake the invite.
bots are always bellow mods and 'active loyal members' role
This bot runs off ip so if you live with someone that has been authorised by this bot that means you can't join a single server it is and it's support doesn't give two damns and say "Welp your problem not ours"
If you've ever seen Lockpickinglawyer, you'll know Military grade is just cheap shit for the cheapest contract bidding price, or a Masterlock
lol "military grade" is cheapest quality at the lowest cost! Army vet here, so I have seen this!
As a Cysec Engineer, This is a military grade bot... Like Russia's military xD
Bro while watching this vid the views just jumped from 500 to 3700, ntts really has one of the best biggest and nicest communitys
By the way, the developer plans to give the Lens feature an opt-out and also wipe anything that was collected before then towards Sunday or so. The whole idea was one huge GDPR infarction waiting but hats off to the dev
bet his intentions were good, but he doesn't realize he can end up in jail for such things, this, only if his bot makes him money, else nobody would bother too much
But if a user wants to not be tracked, are they still going to be banned?
@@Liggliluff You will be able to opt out of the Lens system as both an user and a server without going through that ban thing. And that ban thing was also misworded - you weren't going to get banned off the servers, only that DC wouldn't be able to verify you anymore, meaning that you would have to be manually verified by the server staff if DC is being used
@@chairedgethe ban thing is still up and it is very very clearly worded. The only clear way to stop it from sending any account it doesn't like to the gulag would be to stop it from banning people entirely.
The opt-out isn't a real opt-out as it still has the same very harsh punishment of a global ban.
According to every military person I know, "military grade" just means "barely functional".
The fact that they claim to be a security bot yet they don't know a thing about cybersecurity or how to build secure software is quite amuzing
its kind of funny how there is some random group of people making bots controlling people across servers with tracking and stuff while discords sits there and watches.
If you use AES, SHA or HMAC (all widely used and basically the standard), you are using "military-grade". You still need to implement them correctly, but the algorhithms themselfs are top tier.
That is what "Military-Grade" means in software security every single time.
Use it as a warning label, if someone calls his security features "military-grade", he is either trying to deceive you or doesn't know much about security/cryptography.
double counter is still a seriously annoying bot. the amount of servers I have been kicked off for an alt account i dont even own, and then when i try to contact double counter to let me through, THEY BAN ME FROM EVERY SINGLE SERVER USING DOUBLE COUNTER.
double-counter have never heard of GDPR...
pretty sure "Military grade" is like BARELY JUST FUNCTIONAL, like the worst of the worst but still functioning
that lens feature just screams for a lawsuit from a few germans...
"Military Grade" unironically means "very bad, very cheap, does bare minimum" type of stuff. So they're not wrong there.
Funny how i got an ad for a nuking bot as this video finished
Military grade, seems like apple tbh
We're now at a point in time where everything is using at least military grade encryption. Sometimes more. Tranditionally, military grade = AES256. So this means that if you seen https in your browser's address bar, you're using AES (advanced encryption standard). Which basically means everything is using military grade encryption.
this tool seems very intrusive in general. it does seem useful to be able to detect alt accounts, however, i would never want to automatically ban them. most of the time, in my experience, alt accounts are actually just kids/tech illiterate people who forgot their pw/forgot they made an account already... not to mention the case of a shared ip address between multiple people. and honestly the usefulness doesn't outweigh my regard for people's privacy anyway...
he makes a security bot that can be essential for some servers and desides to sometimes just dont think faar and just do stuff. also the amount of small thing he dont bothers about. like this banning thing for deleting your data as law forces them to if you request it. its just a "screw you, we dont bother because you dont play into our cards" solution. or giving the bot admin when inviting it even trough thats risky and the bot only needs permission that are avable as role permission. yeah just implementing a monitoring feature that has several flaws that make it partly useless. but then advertising your bot whit a huge claim. its hard to tell if all this stuff is intentional but if it is then this is just careless
Pretty sure that their lens feature is against the developer tos and will cause massive api spam if it bans you on all servers
It's also against EU data protection laws
I'm guessing it bans you upon joining rather than banning you everywhere all at once lol
@@AveryChow making it explicitly illegal as it shows a flagrant violation of the right to be forgotten request.
the year of protection being unprotective fr
Fun fact: "military grade" more often than not means "lowest bidder" - aka cheap.
ah great, a way to finally get rid of bad servers
We need a face reveal of our fav Discord Mod. Much love to all of you and NTTS❤
a wise man once said:
"never... EVER... trust the goddamn client"
might as well forget about client security bc at this point everyone's just finding hacks and bypasses for it.
just focus on doing stuff serverside.
@@Tom-uy4io we live in 2024 and developers still trust the client to do important stuff (security-wise)
The "military grade protection" on the internet may not be as flattering as it seems because we all know that the military still uses 20 year old computers
Yeah that lens feature can’t be legal (under GDPR)
On another note, I’ve known about this exploit for over a year, so now I can finally say why I wouldn’t let the community use this bot. 😂
most bots break it, their devs just dont write about what they do
90% of 'hackers' are just good Samaritans at this point
The fact that double counter is logging people ips and sending them to server owners is insane to me. Way over the top and creepy tbh.
2:42 Oh My Guyot
I find it so cringe when companies use military grade as a selling point its so annoying
has no one learned their lesson from that Minecraft plugin that banned you globally if you got banned on more than 2 servers that had the plugin installed? bad actors would just make two fake Minecraft servers then ban someone from both lol. I imagine something similar might happen if you piss off a mod/admin that mods multiple discord servers
Gross bot, even I know how to hide a token, like it literally grants access to the *entire* bot, which can be very bad if the bot has enough permissions, so the way they just had it in plain sight is ridiculous
Military grade is not a good thing.
Military grade means it’s made to barely complete the task as cheaply as possible.
I've reported bugs to a somewhat popular bot's developer and the only thing I got in exchange was 3 months of the bot's Premium subscription (equivalent to 15€)... that I couldn't fully use because the developer banned me from using most of the bot's features.
Please, don't ruin my server!
If you destroy my server, I will never watch your content, *_AGAIN._* Because I am your fan!
Double counter lens gonna double encounter the EU after they hear of this gdpr mess
"Military Grade" really doesn't mean much. There are so many stories of them using extremely outdated and easily breachable softwares
It's marketing for "mass-produced cheaply made junk that worked once in testing" and that's it.
NTTS makes the best discord vids for me. Thanks for making such good content!
always rember, military grade is worse then civilian grade, cause military products have been run into the ground by thousands of people
I remember abusing unpatched thing in the old days: I bypass any account with just brave browser, no console
"military grade" is not only a gimmick, but often times much worse than enthusiast grade or literally almost anything civilian. I've never been military, but plenty of my coworkers and friends are, alongside some of my family. That terminology means nothing good.