4.09 Dedicated Server Security & Distribution

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Originally Posted by Gryphon_

Further thoughts:

For online games, it should be easier to solve; with an active internet connection required for online play, the client files could be programmed to 'phone home' (to the developer site) either periodically, or on demand. In other words, put a sort of trojan in the client executable! This opens up various ways of ensuring client file integrity.

If the industry could get this right, downloading could become the norm, they would make a lot more money, and the hackers would be confined to playing offline.

Er.. that would make a worst scandal than the infamous Boottysomething. A file accesing the net informing of the content of your HD to a third party.. That would kill BOB and 1:C faster than any cheat or hack. It would make Starforce look like a harmless virus.

Don´t get me wrong, I have nothing to hide in My PC, not even credit records. But most people would not come close to such a game.

I think That is the EASY "illegal" way Oleg refered to when adressing the issiu of CRC checks...

The hard way and costlly is the program checking various values in important files such as FM and DM dlls witch is the thing they can´t do right now becouse it means rewriting the code.