[cod] Cost of Cheating has gone up...New Punkbuster
Mike
mike at impact-hosting.com
Wed Jan 4 06:35:11 EST 2006
This is old news: Wednesday June 30th, 2004
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From: Phloam
To: cod at icculus.org
Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 11:50 AM
Subject: RE: [cod] Cost of Cheating has gone up...New Punkbuster
Yeah, smells like the principle Microsoft uses for Product Activation... Upgrade your graphics card and see yourself being blocked by PB (lol)
"i3d.nl - Server admin" <serveradmin at i3d.nl> wrote:
Try to read and understand the rest of the article:
PunkBuster now computes Hardware GUIDs for various pieces of hardware on players' systems while playing on PunkBuster servers. We use multiple private one-way hashes so that no serial number information for individual computers can be determined by admins or anyone else who may try to obtain this information from a Hardware GUID (and as always, no personal information of any kind is examined, stored or transmitted by PunkBuster).
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Van: stalvi [mailto:stalvi at tek.iarc.uaf.edu]
Verzonden: woensdag 4 januari 2006 10:28
Aan: cod at icculus.org
Onderwerp: Re: [cod] Cost of Cheating has gone up...New Punkbuster
On Jan 3, 2006, at 7:46 PM, Dallas Crandall wrote:
Globally banning the new Hardware GUIDs across all games supported by PunkBuster (including games supported in the future.) So punks who are...
...determined to cheat so badly on PB-enabled servers that they try to hack PunkBuster may now need a new computer in addition to a new cdkey in order to return to PunkBuster servers.
As in MAC address? The MAC address, as we all know, can be spoofed/changed as well.
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