Re: cheating

[Steve Baker <sjbaker1@airmail.net>]

Jeff Read wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 07:51:28PM +0400, Dmitry Samoyloff wrote:
> > Excuse me guys.
> > Tell me please, what exactly you mean as you say about cheating?
> 
> Using special programs that give you an unfair advantage in a video game.
> For example, "aimbots" that keep the pipper on an enemy target in Quake.
> The problem with an open source multiplayer game is the possibility of
> cheating by hacking the source code.

But you don't need the sources to do quite a bit of clever cheating.  This is
*NOT* only a problem for OpenSource games and OS's (although it's clearly a LOT
easier to hack games for which you have sources).

If you have the sources to a DLL/.so library then you can do some interesting things -
and even if you don't, you can 'interpose' code of your own between the game and the
DLL/.so library.

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