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Seems trivially easy to hit their evade scenario though. If I merely change the mac address in the device connected to my cable modem, I get a new IP, every ti
by SirMaster 2y ago
Seems trivially easy to hit their evade scenario though.
If I merely change the mac address in the device connected to my cable modem, I get a new IP, every time. Combined with the fact that the game is free, so you can easily make new steam accounts.
- kurtoid 2y agoThe whole point of the article is that they set an identifier in the in-game browser, which will survive MAC address, IP resets, and new steam accounts.
- SirMaster 2y agoThey said if a user changes their IP and SteamID then it would be considered a new user and they wouldn't know. What did I miss?
- compootr 2y agodid you even read half of the article? summary: guy found that the IP and steam ids can be rotated with low cost, so he used the in-game web browser to set a persistent cookie (on that installation of the game), so once cheaters get banned, rotate their IP/steam id, they'll be banned until they clear the app's data.
- SirMaster 2y agoI read the whole article. Which sounds trivially easy...
- compootr 2y ago> trivially easy Yes, I agree! for techies on here, they'll know that as well. The target here is script kiddies —whose tech knowledge is limited to downloading a program from github and following easily laid out instructions — which it's pretty effective protection against.