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What will we do when hackers set up a camera and a robot with rubber fingers to cheat in games? Reminds me of the story of Thomas Peterffy the 'father of high s
by mentos 13y ago
What will we do when hackers set up a camera and a robot with rubber fingers to cheat in games? Reminds me of the story of Thomas Peterffy the 'father of high speed trading':
"It wasn't until 1987 that Peterffy was able to take people out of the loop entirely. With the world's first electronic stock exchange, the NASDAQ terminal, traders could type in orders directly into a computer.
Peterffy didn't want to type in the orders. He and his engineers hacked into the NASDAQ terminal and wired it up to their own computer, which traded automatically based on algorithms.
A senior NASDAQ official saw Peterffy's setup and said Peterffy was breaking the rules: All orders had to be entered through the keyboard. He gave Petterfy's group one week to fix the problem.
Peterffy and his engineers came up with a solution. They built a robot with rubber fingers that typed entries into the keyboard. It satisfied the NASDAQ rules. And on active trading days, the robot typed so fast it sounded like a machine gun."
- kibwen 13y agoThat's an interesting story, but not how these cheats operate. Most cheats either allow access to abilities that cannot be performed via normal keyboard input (flying, moving through walls, item duplication, instant LOS kills) or grant the cheater information not available to a normal player (wallhacks, maphacks). That said, it's fun to try to think of ways in which a robot reaching over your shoulder could somehow give you an unfair advantage... perfectly-timed bunny jumps, perhaps.
- comex 13y agoI think you're missing the big way - aimbots. You'd have to do some nice low latency computer vision to detect enemies, but it could theoretically be just as effective as a regular aimbot.
- Dylan16807 13y agoRegular aimbots use nonvisible information.