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How to invite friends to Minecraft singleplayer without opening to LAN

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Modified May 18, 2023 04:14 GMT

When enjoying a Minecraft world in singleplayer, it’s possible to invite friends to make it multiplayer. However, the Java and Bedrock editions of the game differ in the way this is accomplished. Bedrock uses Xbox Live to invite friends, and Java requires players to be on the same Local Area Network (LAN) that the world is opened up to.

Thanks to a great Minecraft: Java Edition mod known as Essential, players don’t have to worry about connecting their friends to the same network to enjoy multiplayer on a traditionally singleplayer world. The mod also adds cosmetics for players to equip to their avatar, a screenshot manager, and a handy friends list for communication.

If Minecraft fans want to invite their friends to their world without using the “open to LAN” function, Essential makes the process easy.

Steps to invite friends to your Minecraft world using the Essential mod

Minecraft’s Essential mod is particularly interesting among its counterparts, as it doesn’t require a mod loader like Forge, Fabric, or CurseForge to operate. However, if fans do use a loader for their modding needs, Essential has versions for them.

For the sake of simplicity, it’s worth covering the basic way to install Essential via the Windows and MacOS installer, adding friends, and inviting them to a singleplayer world. The entire process only takes a few moments and should make the ability to play any world in multiplayer without a server incredibly straightforward.

Here’s how to install and invite friends to a Minecraft world with the Essential mod:

  1. Head to the URL https://essential.gg/download and click on the link to install either…

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Government Databases Invite Privacy Abuse in China and the U.S.

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As snoop-tastic as China’s regime is, it’s tempting to gloat a bit when the country suffers a massive data breach of its own that dwarfs the leaks it inflicts on other countries. But regular Chinese citizens have been compromised, not just the government officials who spy on their own people and hack into foreign databases. More remarkably, this is only one of many incidents that illustrate the dangers of the surveillance state’s appetite for gathering and hoarding sensitive information under any flag.

“A massive online database apparently containing the personal information of up to one billion Chinese citizens was left unsecured and publicly accessible for more than a year – until an anonymous user in a hacker forum offered to sell the data and brought it to wider attention last week,” CNN reported July 5.

That a massive treasure trove of personal details was placed online with minimal protection, reportedly by Shanghai’s police, makes an awful sort of sense. China’s regime has little regard for anybody’s privacy and is imposing an increasingly sophisticated surveillance-and-control state. Why wouldn’t officials prioritize their own ease of access over concerns about identity theft and the personal fallout from sticking data that includes criminal records online?

Then again, you’d think China’s officialdom might be a little more security-conscious given how much effort they expend on stealing other people’s data.

In May 2014, the U.S. Justice Department charged Chinese military hackers with spying on American corporations. Months later, news reports revealed that hackers working for the Chinese government penetrated U.S. government servers looking for information on federal employees.

In July 2020, the feds indicted more Chinese government hackers for their part in “a hacking campaign lasting more than 10 years to the present, targeting companies in countries with high technology industries, including the United States, Australia, Belgium, Germany, Japan, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Spain, South Korea, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.” In September of the same year, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency announced that hackers…

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Exclusive Media Invite – Hack the Building 2020

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COLUMBIA, Md.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Nov 9, 2020–

The Maryland Innovation & Security Institute (MISI) and Dreamport, a partnership between MISI and United States Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM), invite media to join cybersecurity, control system and government professionals at Hack the Building, November 16-19 and streaming live on Twitch. Hack the Building is an unrivaled, hands-on live facilities critical infrastructure cybersecurity challenge featuring more than 50 teams from industry, federal labs, building automation companies, academia and government agencies – all competing to infiltrate, disrupt or take over a connected smart building and the computing systems and data inside the building.

As outlined in the official Hack the Building Handbook, the event is a virtual challenge built around a specially-designated, real-world target: A live, fully-equipped 150,000 square-foot “smart” office building near Annapolis, Maryland that teams on-site and remote are challenged to attack through its diverse IT, control systems, Internet of Things (IoT), access control, surveillance camera, building automation and other systems.

Hack the Building was created to address four core goals:

The target building is staged as belonging to “ BCR Industries,” a fictitious defense industrial base “manufacturing and engineering company” mocked-up for the competition to represent an attractive target with “sensitive U.S. government contracts.” This illustrates Hack the Building’s imperative, overarching public-private partnership focus on raising awareness of critical infrastructure protection and evolving cyber risks across interconnected computer networks, control and building systems.

“As once-isolated buildings and physical control systems converge with modern networks, it is crucial for cybersecurity, facility engineering and other disciplines to study attack and defense hands-on and learn from each other,” said Armando Seay, Director and Co-Founder of MISI and event organizer. “Hack the Building’s competition and teams yield immediate, practical cyber defense skills and knowledge – but the returns are even greater for our stakeholders charged with protecting connected offices,…

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