While browsing the sell forums on the eve main site I came across an intresting post about a guy who is able to compile lists of people in alliance and corps via the API server.
The original post can be found here
http://www.eveonline.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=1555452
After reading a little more into this, it seems Kronus uses data mining techniques to farm user ids for the chars and compiles them into a list. So I thought to my self this could be a usefull tool in which SIG could exploit in order to increase the speed at which we can help some of our clients.
I decide to investigate a bit further. Upon clicking his link I am led to a login site asking for my email address. Now if you rember a few posts ago about my email account getting hacked. I said no thank you. I will do things the longer harder way.
Kronus Claims he is able to identify 90% of all members in any corp or alliance. He can do this in a matter of seconds by drawing from the API server. My work takes days sometimes weeks but when I am done there is a complete list of members activity levels how many are alts and what ships they fly.
Although Kronus's service is fast and possibly user friendly I will not be using it as I am no longer giving my email addresses out to any EvE related sites. But for the CEO involved in a current highsec war, who does not have or will not engadge in espionage this service could be worth its wieght in gold.
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