[bf1942] Another angle

Joe sechon at blackmud.com
Thu Jun 16 15:44:47 EDT 2005


And I forgot to add - All someone has to do is wrap the binary to provide a
fake gamespy auth or whatever I'd bet..I'm far from a programmer, and have
no desire to host a server if I have to go to that length, but I'm sure it's
doable.

-----Original Message-----
From: Joe [mailto:sechon at blackmud.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 2:40 PM
To: bf1942 at icculus.org
Subject: OT: RE: [bf1942] Another angle


Yeah it's called take the drive out, and use some tools in linux (some win32
available) to extract the data. I'm not 100% on that make, but my DishDVR
contains a standard IDE drive that you can connect to a PC. It's got three
partitions, the third containing recorded shows. Voids the warrenty though
by opening it, obviously.

-----Original Message-----
From: Lee Latham [mailto:leeprivate at cgmlarson.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 2:17 PM
To: bf1942 at icculus.org
Subject: Re: [bf1942] Another angle


Actually I would respectfully disagree, and assert that they could indeed
force you to use gamespy only.  If you look at the current crop of cable
boxes that, to my knowledge, have not yet been "hacked" despite being out
for several years, you might agree.  When you can have a sort of rotating
hash system the only way to really hack it is to break the encryption,
which is not that easy to do.

In fact, it really annoys me that I can't copy recorded shows from my
Scientific Atlanta PVR, so if anyone knows of a hack to do it, I'd really
love a private email!

But my point is only that it could be made very, very hard if the binary
will accept only a verified gamespy query to start the client.


At 08:31 PM 6/15/2005, you wrote:
>You hardly need to hack the game to create a separate master server
>system. Just wrap the server binary in a script that pings your new master
>on entry and pings it again on exit. The master then periodically issues a
>regular qstat status query to your server to fill in the details. You
>could probably implement the ping with an IRC bot so that the master can
>be distributed over several IRC servers. This eliminates single point of
>failure and allows volunteers to contribute servers from all over the
planet.




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