Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 07:53:20 05/03/01
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On May 02, 2001 at 16:52:59, Alois Ganter wrote: >On May 02, 2001 at 13:10:50, Robert Hyatt wrote: > > >Of course this is all forbidden. "Cheating" is forbidden by definition. >Operating a program with the mouse allows a lot of coded forbidden entry, while >operating with a keyboard does not. You are kidding, I assume? You don't think I can type fast to mean one thing, slow to mean another. Add a space on the end of the move to mean something else? Type a move while the time is a multiple of 10 seconds to mean something else? > >To repeat: The rest position of the mouse arrow between entering moves can >illegally communicate information to the program in computer chess tournaments >with human operators. > >So the ICCA should implement a mouse ban at least. That would be silly. The keyboard offers more cheating opportunities than the mouse does. Who would take a chance on someone bumping the table and causing the mouse to move from one zone to another? Nobody I know of... > > >a) Auto232 is RS232. There is no TCP/IP based protocol. So? I can flood you with characters just as I can flood you with packets. What are you going to do about all those interrupts? > >b) If however it ran via TCP/IP you could simply start Netmon under Windows 2000 >server and monitor the traffic down to every single byte. So what you suggest >could be easily detected. With fair play you'd typically expect packets of 45-60 >bytes per move (40 bytes IP-header + move data) and no traffic between moves >other than indeed the occasional Echo request to check connectivity. > >Guys like Eklund from SSDF sound to me like they'd be quite able to configure a >Netmon session. > When they don't even understand TCP/IP? Nor use it in their regular testing? When they get bogus results from normal auto232? >> >>I don't think you can design a non-abusable interface...
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