BLUF: A blog post about a Minecraft mod’s restrictions prompted interesting solutions from the community, including hijacking calls to Pastebin and injecting UUID into the list of allowed users using Java reflection.
Yesterday’s blog post on a Minecraft mod’s restrictions saw a range of innovative solutions from the community, such as hijacking calls to Pastebin using /etc/hosts and pretending to be the website. But the most noteworthy solution came from Matt Langlois, who injected the UUID into the list of allowed users using Java reflection, without requiring internet connection or web traffic proxying. To learn more about how Matt did it, visit his blog post at https://blog.fletchto99.com/2019/may/minecraft-mod-reversing/.Source…