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MacGamer.net - Uplink - Basics - Logs
Logs
Every time you connect to a server, you create logs. Using these logs, a Company/Hacker can do a 'Passive Trace' on you, by following the logs back through your bounce route and to your machine.

To prevent this, you need to clear your logs. The safest way to do this is to delete your logs from your first bounce point. Because InterNIC's password never changes, and they do not trace you, it is the best server to use for your first bounce point, as you can easily access the server's logs and delete them.

When you go to delete your logs, you must make sure you delete the right ones. The main logs you need to delete are the 'Bounce' logs, and the 'Password Accepted' logs.

What Log Entries Look Like:
  • Connection from 127.0.0.1 routed to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx -- (Bounce Log)
  • From 127.0.0.1: Password authentication accepted -- (Password Accepted Log)

These are the logs you need to delete. It is important that you leave the actual connection logs there though, because you also leave logs when you disconnect, and it would look suspicious if there was a disconnection log but no connection.

By deleting these logs from your first bounce point after every hack, you should never be caught, as long as you aren't too slow in doing it.

Remember, everywhere keeps logs, including Voice Phone Systems. Just because you can't get to the logs, it doesn't mean they aren't there.

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