A.L.A.R.I.C

The ALarm/AleRt for Roblox Incidents and Cataclysms (A.L.A.R.I.C) was an automated emergency response system meant to minimize the damage of major hackings and anomalous events to it's users games and accounts. Developed in late 2012, it was conceived as a way to mitigate the damage of future attacks similar to the 4/1/12 incident to Roblox users. A.L.A.R.I.C would automatically respond to events in varying ways depending on the situation (or "class" of event) it encountered, making it a formidable security system.

History
After the April Fools 2012 Incident, a wave of mass panic hit the Roblox community, impacting everyone from clan owners and developers. Items were changed, accounts were unbanned, and insanity reigned across the site on that day in spring 2012. It seemed nowhere was safe, and if Roblox could get hacked once, what could stop someone like 1x1x1x1 from causing mass chaos in the future? In most players minds, there was no answer to this question. There were not many safeguards people could use - 2-step verification and Account PINs were not yet implemented, and FilteringEnabled was unheard of. So, what could the users of Roblox do?

It was around this time that an anonymous group of developers began work on a "counter-exploit" system, meant to warn and/or prevent these events from happening. The system would use multiple lines of countermeasures to destroy enemy exploits and attacks, as well as a inbuilt notifications system for real-time attack and emergency notices.

This system, soon known as A.L.A.R.I.C, would be released to the public during late 2012, with a price of about 250,000 Tickets. Several large groups and clans would buy the system, (them being basically the only ones that could afford it) seeing deployment in multiple group games and bases. A.L.A.R.I.C would repulse several events, using it's event classification system to determine the seriousness of the threats, and going into 2013 the system was extremely prevalent within the infrastructure of about any major clan.

Despite this, public knowledge of the system was practically nonexistent. The system was extremely powerful, and if it fell into public hands, major disaster could occur on the Roblox website. For obvious reasons, no owner of the system wanted this to happen, and so knowledge of it was kept with utmost secrecy.

In July of 2013, an exploiter accidentally triggered a portion of A.L.A.R.I.C's emergency broadcast system, resulting in limited broadcasts of a "Z-Class event" alert message. After inquiring on the forums, the discussion seemingly ended. After this date, it seems as if no new user sightings have been leaked outside of private discussion, seemingly due to larger efforts to conceal the program in response to the aforementioned incident. As of 2023, all current operators and users of the A.L.A.R.I.C system are unknown.

Description
Although information is scarce and somewhat dubious, it is believed that the A.L.A.R.I.C system was the most powerful exploit/tool of Roblox's history, having the ability to defend games from exploits with a large amount of unique techniques. A.L.A.R.I.C may use undiscovered vulnerabilities within the Roblox software in order to execute it's duties, including ones still unknown to this day. Furthermore, it is also believed that A.L.A.R.I.C could modify nearly every aspect of a Roblox game where it was being used. As well as it's expansive emergency alert and anti-virus and exploit system, it is believed that A.L.A.R.I.C could act as an offensive weapon. There are some rumors about how the tool was used in such a manner, although these cannot be confirmed.

Early warning system and "event class" types

 * A-Class: the most common type of event class, triggered in response to normal exploits and script injections
 * B-Class: triggered in response to Moderation action against a user's property.
 * D-Class: Unknown
 * X-Class: triggered in response to major change and/or damage to Roblox were to occur. X-Class events were likely triggered during the Tix removal and 2013 price floor update.
 * Z-class: A.L.A.R.I.C would trigger a Z-Class event alarm if extreme damage to Roblox were to occur.

Update - October 7th, 2020
On October 4th, 2020, portions of an A.L.A.R.I.C unit's system logs were recovered. Within the aforementioned excerpts, the unit's security system appears to detect a class-Z major anomalous event, making it the only evidence of ever such an event being detected. Said event appears to have caused universal effect to the Roblox platform, and possibly more. Interestingly, there are no confirmed records of any anomalous events happening on October 26th, 2015. [2015-10-26T 02:23:17+00:00] No issues found. Internal status good. [2015-10-26T02:23:52+00:00] Anomalous activity detected, Location: RBXSite Intensity: Minor [2015-10-26T02:24:08+00:00] Anomalous activity detected, Location: RBXSite Intensity: Minor [2015-10-26T02:24:08+00:00] Anomalous activity protocols escalated to Class-A. deploying preliminary countermeasures. [2015-10-26T02:24:33+00:00] Anomalous activity detected, Location: RBXSite,RBXClient Intensity: Major [2015-10-26T02:24:33+00:00] Anomalous activity protocols escalated to Class-X. Deploying countermeasure. [2015-10-26T02:24:46+00:00] WARNING!!! PRELIMINARY COUNTERMEASURES RENDERED NONFUNCTIONAL. [2015-10-26T02:25:01+00:00] Anomalous activity detected, Location:RBXSite Intensity: Unknown. [2015-10-26T02:25:04+00:00] WARNING!!! LEVEL 1 COUNTERMEASURES RENDERED NONFUNCTIONAL. [2015-10-26T02:25:04+00:00] WARNING!!! LEVEL 2 COUNTERMEASURES RENDERED NONFUNCTIONAL. [2015-10-26T02:25:04+00:00] WARNING!!! EMERGENCY COUNTERMEASURES INITIATED - ANOMALOUS ACTIVITY PROTOCOLS ESCALATED TO CLASS-Z. [2015-10-26T02:25:05+00:00] Anomalous activity detected, Location:RBXSite Intensity: Universal. [2015-10-26T02:25:07+00:00] WARNING!!! LEVEL 3 COUNTERMEASURES RENDERED NONFUNCTIONAL. [2015-10-26T02:25:18+00:00] Anomalous activity detected, Location:Universal. Intensity: Universal. [2015-10-26T02:25:18+00:00] Anomalous activity detected, Location:Unknown. Intensity: Unknown. [2015-10-26T02:25:24+00:00] WARNING!!! EMERGENCY COUNTERMEASURES RENDERED NONFUNCTIONAL.