[cod] Cost of Cheating has gone up...New Punkbuster

Mark J. DeFilippis defilm at acm.org
Sat Jan 7 15:16:01 EST 2006


This is similar to the licensing for MS Windows XP Pro
and has been this way for a while now...

Just as changing the components in your windows PC
will require you to "Re-activate" your windows OS to
MS...  Which components is not disclosed.


At 04:38 AM 1/4/2006, you wrote:

>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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Mark J. DeFilippis                    defilm at acm.org
                                       defilm at ieee.org


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