Re: How to Protect your python log

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POST FROM RUSSIAN FORUM

As someone who has worked in the anti-cheat department of a large gaming company, and monitors the cheats in the online shooter with the same client-server architecture as WoT (only there was the Unreal 3 Engine), I want to dispel a few myths about Cheetah and control .
To begin with, I have to say that the well-known cheats for WoT – kindergarten, compared to cheats for online shooters.
No wallhack (show opponents without glare), no recoil (shoot without details), no spread (shoot without variation), unlimited ammo (not limited ammo), speed hack (go faster on-rate), teleport, texture hack and many others really dangerous cheats. They are in no WoT, and only the naive believe that this is supposedly due to the client-server architecture. This is not true. Server-client architecture with data validation on the server – all have online shooters. However, many of these there are present cheats.
As a strong opponent of cheating, I am forced to admit that the WoT harm from cheating is minimal. You did not see the battles players who wins 95%, 12-14 kills per combat 9k and the average damage? Believe that once someone start using no recoil, no spread, and real, and not children The aimbot, T92 and art will make 12 vanshotov for battle.
However, there are cheats and the question arises – how to deal with them.
Immediately, the most intelligent, offer folder res_mods check for the presence of third-party modifications.
SH, unless of course they are not complete *** work there, never will not do.
As the creators of WoT, HS has the right to verify only the integrity of your files and gameplay. What they just do not have the right to do is to check what’s on your computer.
And if in Russia or Belarus, simple check res_mods folders can be gone with it, in other countries there is a large crowd of wise men, who rushed to the folder picture naked wife or even worse – their naked children bathing in the bath (and for beauty can pereimennovat picture in battle.swf) and scanning the folder turns into a lawsuit that the SH, in spite of all income, it just does not pull.
Moreover, as already mentioned, cheats in this folder are not stored, and scanning of the entire computer is called a break-in, and after, the FBI official said that Clinton cracked Russian hackers, American judges can easily be arrested all the property of SH in North America and Europe closing all accounts, if any player in the United States would just slightly more literate in these matters and to prove the fact of scanning (hacking).
The next step – check the integrity of files that are absolutely useless, since all the cheats do not touch WoT files.
The last point to which we came – to check the integrity of the process.
It Hemorrhoids. And very serious.
It nastoschee anti-cheat system, and write your HS is unlikely to be. If other monsters gamedev are most ready-made solutions are unlikely to go HS serious expenditure of labor resources.
Simply buy a ready-made solution.
We look at the market.
Valve disappears, he is only concerned with Steam
remain punkbuster, x-trap, GameGuard, hackshield
Well, all these defenses scripting cheats caught 1 sec, on the rise
the only problem is that to WoT has injectors, at least two hacker groups, and here comes a real madhouse, because to catch the injectors have to do the dump files and send them to a laboratory for reverse engineering, and then in anti-cheat It will be written update, which will catch the injectors
the process takes about a week or two
write a new hack, which will get the update and do not be caught again – it is 20-30 minutes
I understand that all this sounds very pessemichno, but this is the reality segodneshney gaming industry …
all online projects have a bunch of cheats and developed can not do anything
there is an easier way that requires much less energy – spektirovanie fights from GMs
5-10 received complaints of a player
GM spektiruet 5-10 fights through a special spectator with an additional service information, and concludes – there are no cheats or
not particularly effective way, but cost-effective, spektirovanie in the game already (when you killed and you’re looking for someone), to find a bunch of students and teach them to watch the fighting is not difficult

In any case, I would certainly be happy if VG come up with something new and original, but very deep doubt …

PS. I’m sorry for a lot of words