The Nintendo Wii used gyroscopic controls (first gen original controllers only had accelerometers. The Wii Motion Plus add-on added gyroscopes, but later controllers integrated both into a single unit). The IR bar was just for the Wii controller to figure out which detection was towards the TV.

I’ve had a server running without whitelist because a friend hadn’t bought the game yet, within 2 weeks it was griefed. It was just the two of us playing.

There are crawler bots just searching for unprotected Minecraft servers and it’s just a matter of time before they find yours.

It’s a shame the server lacks a pretty basic feature such as password protection.

It’s like the olden times where illiterate people were asked to sign a contract that waived their rights and possessions while they were being told something else entirely.