The fall of Minecraft's 2b2t

A summary for those who can't be bothered to watch the video. I seriously suggest you do though...

Backstory:

• Nerds Inc, also known as the Tyranny, is a notorious group of griefers which include notorious players such as Popbob and iTristan.
• Between 2013 and 2015, iTristan and Popbob helped develop plugins for the server, which they used to backdoor the server and gain admin privileges. This allowed them to openly grief bases, spawn illegal items such as 32K's (overpowered weapons & armor hacked with level 32,767 enchants, in the standard game enchants can generally only go up to level 4, not the 16-bit signed integer limit.), place illegal blocks such as bedrock, etc. Their antics almost destroyed the 2b2t community. If it weren't for the invasion of YouTubers such as TheCampingRusher, Fuze III and later Etika, the server would've died.
• It's been thought that Nerds Inc had quit the server. Turns out that wasn't the case.

The exploit:

• Originally there was an exploit that allowed players to click & interact with blocks that were outside unloaded chunks. Using this, you could basically DDOS the server by forcing it to load thousands of new chunks at once.
• Hausemaster reported the bug to the PaperMC devs, who fixed that exploit by changing their plugin to only allow blocks to be interacted with if the chunk was loaded by a player. This inadvertently created a new exploit.
• Nerds Inc anticipated that this fix would happen and sought ways to abuse the fix as a coordinate exploit that would expose players' locations and bases. Problem is, the sheer amount of checks they needed to do was gigantic and their original bots were primitive at best.
• To make the exploit more efficient, they enlisted the help of Baritone's developer (Baritone is a Minecraft bot.) He used machine learning processes to make the bot identify chunk loading patterns more easily instead of scanning the map in a spiral pattern, compare chunk loading activity with login/logout activity to track players in real time, and to check loaded chunks for any unnaturally placed items, which it would then scan and re-create in a separate instance of Minecraft.
• In other words, they created a bot that could use this exploit to track player movements and locate bases.
• This exploit was called NoCom, short for "No Comment"
• NoCom allowed Nerds Inc to track down thousands of bases and grief them.
• To cover up its existence, Nerds Inc members used a combination of gaslighting and disinformation strategies along with leaking other "exploits" with plausible explanations as red-herrings.
• Nerds Inc originally showed restraint in using the exploit, until a few events happened which led to Hause reducing the packet limit, requiring multiple AFK accounts to track players and a rewrite of the algorithm.
• The Spawnmasons (another major group) were given coordinates by Nerds Inc, no questions asked. They griefed many stashes and acquired over 200,000,000 items.
• The exploit became public soon after the Infinity Incursion discovered it and used it in a more primitive way to track, stream snipe and grief FitMC specifically. It's the reason why he hadn't logged on his main account in over four months.
• On 21st July 2021, the NoCom exploit was killed when Hausemaster added a fix to the plugin that enforced a range limit when interacting with blocks.