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The article just says anything that read that section
by Jamie9912 4y ago
The article just says anything that read that section
- marcinzm 4y agoIf I was them I wouldn't give out all the details on this.
- cathdrlbizzare 4y agoSecurity through obscurity isn’t security.
- Wowfunhappy 4y agoThis isn't security in the same sense, and consider they also do ban waves for a reason.
- MAGZine 4y agoSo in your view, anticheat companies would be better to publish their methods of detecting cheats? cheat detection and cheat development is an arms race. always was, always has been. By publishing, you just give an advantage to the cheaters.
- michaelcampbell 4y agoNor is complete transparency.
- GuB-42 4y agoIt only said "Each of the accounts banned today read from this "secret" area in the client", it also said you can get banned if you read data from the game client memory. Reading from that section was a necessary condition for this wave of bans, but they didn't say it was sufficient, and that they didn't do any additional checks.
- cathdrlbizzare 4y agoThere are all sorts of security software that could do this. Antivirus, DLP, and more. Conflating a variety of possibilities and relying correlation doesn’t reduce to intent or prove causation. OTOH: Don’t play computer games on company hardware unless it’s part of the job. I don’t have skin in this computer game. To stay ahead of cheaters requires constant vigilance and creative solutions to scale detection.