[armyops] Solution to PunkBuster Client Errors on Linux

[Michael King]

On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 11:21, Joe Eckstein wrote:
> At 10:39 AM 9/2/2003 -0400, you wrote:
> >On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 10:36, Matthew Arnold wrote:
> > > Alexander Winston wrote:
> > >
> > > > "Licensee understands and agrees that the information that may be
> > > > inspected and reported by PunkBuster software includes, but is not
> > > > limited to, devices and any files residing on the hard-drive and in the
> > > > memory of the computer on which PunkBuster software is installed.
> > >
> > > Gadzooks! That's what I get for not reading the EULA. Is there any way
> > > to get America's Army to function without Punk Buster? This clause in
> > > the EULA is utterly and completely unacceptable.
> > >
> > > Matt
> > >
> 

[snip]

> There are a couple encrypting filesystems available for linux, which would 
> solve the privacy issue, but would probably slow your computer considerably.
> 

If you're not running the application as "root", there's not much they
can find out about your system if it's secured for local access in
addition to remote access.  Although, I am a bit perturbed that we are
required to secure our systems because of an anti-cheat software.  It
should only look at memory space of the user, and the files owned by the
user - and that's it... even that I have issues with.

--
Michael