The final part of Tom’s interview described NRIS’s large-scale Realm crashing campaign known as Operation Oppenheimer, the internal instability caused by Crashary, and Tom’s eventual split from the group after leaking information to Mojang and deciding to return on the anti-hacker side. The article also noted that Mojang’s recent anti-mass-invite patch had broken Realm Bot’s /realm invite command and similar tools, leaving uncertainty around how safe replacement systems might work.
Read Part 1 and Part 2 for context.
During a month in late 2022 or early 2023 (probably December), Operation Oppenheimer started, with the goal of autocrashing as many Realms as possible in one month. NRIS's Discord Server was terminated because of this, and Mojang Studios patched one autocrashing method, but NRIS "cost [Mojang] a lot of money" with Oppenheimer. Then when Crashary became a more mainstream bot, Tom started having doubts about it - Crashary "was causing [NRIS] too [many] problems" and got the NRIS Server terminated within 2 weeks of its existence. Nations (the original NRIS founder) and Milk (the owner for a lot of time) left NRIS; Tom leaked a lot of Crashary information to Mojang, and then left NRIS and briefly joined Bytes, an infamous doxer. Then Tom went on a seven-month-long break and is now looking to return on the anti-hacker side, to "work...to stop the crashers, the hackers".
One piece of advice Tom has for people is to not trust USSR - "he hasn't changed, he never will change," Tom stated.
So, that's the end of Tom's story. Our next interview may be with someone even bigger in the hacking community - but that's for some other day. For now, stay tuned!
On other news, Realm Bot's /realm invite command (along with other bots' Realm inviting commands) seems to not work due to Mojang's recent patch of mass inviting. We are unsure how it will be safely, legally and comfortably replaced.
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