<DIV>Yeah, smells like the principle Microsoft uses for Product Activation... Upgrade your graphics card and see yourself being blocked by PB (lol)</DIV> <DIV><BR><B><I>"i3d.nl - Server admin" <serveradmin@i3d.nl></I></B> wrote:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"> <META content="Microsoft Word 11 (filtered medium)" name=Generator> <STYLE> v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} o\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} w\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} .shape {behavior:url(#default#VML);} </STYLE> <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:SmartTagType name="PersonName" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"></o:SmartTagType> <STYLE> st1\:*{behavior:url(#default#ieooui) } </STYLE> <STYLE> <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:Tahoma; panose-1:2 11 6 4 3 5 4 4 2 4;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal,
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12pt">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).</SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></div> <DIV> <div class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></div></DIV> <DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><FONT face="Times New
Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> <HR tabIndex=-1 align=center width="100%" SIZE=2> </SPAN></FONT></DIV> <div class=MsoNormal><B><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Van:</SPAN></FONT></B><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"> stalvi [mailto:stalvi@tek.iarc.uaf.edu] <BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Verzonden:</SPAN></B> woensdag 4 januari 2006 10:28<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Aan:</SPAN></B> <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:PersonName w:st="on">cod@icculus.org</st1:PersonName><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Onderwerp:</SPAN></B> Re: [cod] Cost of Cheating has gone up...New Punkbuster</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></div></DIV> <div class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></div> <DIV> <DIV> <div class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">On Jan 3, 2006, at 7:46 PM, Dallas Crandall wrote:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></div></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="MARGIN-TOP: 5pt; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 5pt" type="cite"><SPAN style="WORD-SPACING: 0px; border-spacing: 0px 0px; khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; apple-text-size-adjust: auto; orphans: 2; widows: 2"> <DIV> <DIV align=center> <TABLE class=MsoNormalTable style="WIDTH: 90%" cellSpacing=1 cellPadding=0 width="90%" border=0> <TBODY> <TR style="border-spacing: 1px 1px"> <TD style="PADDING-RIGHT: 2.25pt; PADDING-LEFT: 2.25pt; PADDING-BOTTOM: 2.25pt; PADDING-TOP: 2.25pt; border-spacing: 1px 1px"> <div class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></div></TD></TR> <TR style="border-spacing: 1px 1px"> <TD style="PADDING-RIGHT: 2.25pt;
PADDING-LEFT: 2.25pt; PADDING-BOTTOM: 2.25pt; PADDING-TOP: 2.25pt"><SPAN style="border-spacing: 1px 1px"> <div class=MsoNormal><SPAN class=apple-style-span><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Globally banning the new Hardware GUIDs across all games supported by PunkBuster (including games supported in the future.) So punks who are... </SPAN></SPAN></FONT></SPAN><BR style="border-spacing: 1px 1px"><SPAN class=apple-style-span><SPAN style="border-spacing: 1px 1px">...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. </SPAN></SPAN><BR style="border-spacing: 1px 1px"><BR><o:p></o:p></div></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE> <DIV> <div class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"></SPAN><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></div></DIV> <DIV> <div class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times
New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">As in MAC address? The MAC address, as we all know, can be spoofed/changed as well.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></div></DIV> <DIV> <div class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></div></DIV> <div class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><BR><BR><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></div></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE> <DIV><BR></DIV><p>
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