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But open source would make cheating far more "assessable". It would be a trivial job to modify the opacity of walls for example - I imagine such a feat would be
by shocks 15y ago
But open source would make cheating far more "assessable". It would be a trivial job to modify the opacity of walls for example - I imagine such a feat would be substantially harder without access to the source code (of course, still possible).
It's easier to trust a "cheating hack" if it comes as a source code patch or the source code is readily available. If I was so inclined to cheat, I certainly would not trust a strange patch/executable from some shadowy figure I knew nothing about.
- chc 15y agoThat's like worrying that sharper knives will make stabbing people easier. It's true, but stabbing is already easy enough with the knives we have that the difficulty of the act isn't really stopping anyone. Similarly, games get hacked, open-source or not.
- pantaloons 15y agoIgnoring the security through obscurity mess, the more salient point is that there are classes of problems that cannot be solved at present without a locked down client. If solving such a problem is the entire function of the device I don't know that I'm against this. Technology will eventually solve such problems (thin clients or fully homomorphic encryption) but these have serious issues of their own.