[bf1942] Tards to ban

[Fredriksson, Andreas]

All games that use the GameSpy SDK receive a hashed version of
the cd key when clients connect, BF does this too. This is in
turn used for checking for duplicate cd keys. It's a fairly
small change to add banning and kicking by this id as well
but it has to work persistently as well so I'm going to have
to rewrite some console commands for it to work.

It's going in sooner or later in any case.

// Andreas

-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Getman
To: bf1942 at icculus.org
Sent: 5/30/2003 6:19 PM
Subject: RE: [bf1942] Tards to ban

Question is, does the CD Key actually get sent to the server?  My guess
would be that it is not.  Having it sent may not be a good idea either
since it could theoretically be captured and used for pirated copies of
the game.

An alternative way to handle bans might be to base them on MAC address. 
These are unique per ethernet card so it wouldn't matter if the tard
tried
to change his ip.  The downside is that MAC addresses can be spoofed
fairly easily by someone who knows how.


-- 
Steve Getman
steve at lightcubed.com


<quote who="Stewart, John">
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> Aye; here's a me-too. CD-key bans are the only effective method...!
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> johnS
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