Caltrose Policy

The Caltrose Policy is a set of regulations made by CCTV Online following the events of the Caltrose25V5 trojan horse attacks that vandalized several community servers and injected worms onto CCTV's server computers, as well as stealing money from them and causing the Caltrose25V5 Recession and Caltrose25V5 Unrest in April. The policy was made on May 5, 2020, two days after the end of the attacks. Server operators in violation of the Caltrose Policy are subject to bans or even account deletions for not complying.

Since then, over 10 people were banned or even terminated for not following the Caltrose Policy, the most infamous was a 14 year old server operator whose community server was shut down and his account was banned on November 14, 2020 after it was found to be in violation of this policy as inspected by CCTV's server inspection team. A 24 year old was permanently banned on July 15, 2020 for violating Caltrose25V5 restrictions. These policies have since impacted CCTV Online's everyday functions and hindered freedom movements against players. Operating a community server on California City Defense and California City Street Racers was easy and simple in the late 2010's. Server owners had little rules to follow and security installations for these servers were optional (they were banned before June 2018). However, because of the Caltrose25V5 trojan attacks that took place from March 26 to May 3 of 2020, it forced CCTV Online to make several changes and a variety of new rules for server operators, as well as introducing the CCTV Online Server Flags and CCTV's enhanced ACS security.

Rules In This Policy
Many of these rules are new, whereas some restrictions during the attacks were recycled and added into this policy.


 * Community servers must have a VPN and a firewall altogether, which can be bought from ATBW Blog's store for community servers.
 * Servers allowing 30 or more players must have a permit and a special ACS provided firewall in order to prevent similar malware attacks in the future.
 * Each community server is automatically granted enhanced ACS protection upon creation and is subject to CCTV's CCTV Online Server Flag Policy.
 * Online minigame servers are strictly monitored by CCTV's Game Wardens to ensure that no one is installing malware.
 * Anyone caught installing any form of malware onto a server, be it casual, competitive, or mini-game will be permanently banned by staff.
 * Anyone attempting to log back onto CCTV Online games or its general website are now required to go through a series of re-captchas, some are words, and others are images in which the person must get all right to ensure that it is an actual person. Those that fail it will risk having their accounts terminated by staff.
 * Anyone attempting to make a new community server must abide by all of these rules and is required to go through a series of re-captchas and the server is then waited for approval. Prior to Caltrose25V5, creating community servers was simple and could be created without any restrictions.
 * Protests on CCTV Online games are not allowed and those caught will be subject to bans.

Laws
ATBW City has made the policy an official law, with a $10,000 dollar fine for first offenders in ATBW City. This law was signed on November 26, 2020 and was approved 4 days after.

Escade City has also made this policy a law as well, as they began cracking down on violators of this policy when playing the game. California City star Delmar Brown was reportedly arrested on December 2, 2020 while playing the game for not following the Caltrose25V5 policy after he started a mimigame server and was sentenced to 3 months house arrest.

This becoming a law was subject to criticism as to being unconstitutional and unlawful as enforcing this policy should be done by CCTV themselves, rather than the government, as CCTV CEO Ezekiel Palmer discussed in an interview with CLP news.