Oh man, city of heroes. I spent a long time reverse engineering this game when it originally came out. It had some unusually complicated networking code, IIRC.

Oh man, city of heroes. I spent a long time reverse engineering this game when it originally came out. It had some unusually complicated networking code, IIRC. I was able to write a (the first?) client that was able to emulate some of the protocol, but eventually I sort of lost interest. It was fun to work on for a while. I remember there was an incident once where an online acquaintance of mine got hold of the admin tool for the game. I believe he found it by tracking down one of the engineer's personal websites, which for some reason had a copy of this tool accessible on it. The tool gave you administrative access to the servers (not ssh, administrative within the game), with no other form of authentication. We had fun with it for a little while, and then eventually the engineer who's site we had taken it from joined our little IRC channel to ask us to stop using it, and we did. Fun times.