Re: [pygame] AppState-0.1 released

["Charlie Nolan" <funnyman3595@xxxxxxxxx>]

The idea is that most cheating will be obvious, so you can block
individual users who are polluting the high score table.  As Nathan
pointed out, though, getting a new Google account is pretty easy, so
even that's not terribly effective.

-FM

On 9/27/08, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Horst JENS wrote:
>
>> Somehow i would feel uncomfortable if i had to type in my gmail account
>> password just to upload an highscore - even if it's a open-source app.
>
> What's the reasoning behind requiring a password for
> this, anyway?
>
> As far as I can see, the only threat it protects against
> is someone else pretending to be you and giving you
> one of their high scores. But that benefits you, not
> them!
>
> To guard against people faking their own high scores,
> some kind of cryptographic arrangement is needed,
> not passwords. Even then, it's hard to see how you
> could prevent someone spoofing the protocol if the
> game is open source.
>
> --
> Greg
>
>