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Subject: Re: Amazing human/Cheaters/Other Questions

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 18:36:54 08/24/99

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On August 24, 1999 at 15:19:56, KarinsDad wrote:

>On August 24, 1999 at 15:00:09, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>[snip]
>>
>>
>>I have suggested that the only reasonable way to control cheating is to control
>>the client software.  ICC ought to take their blitzin interface, and modify it
>>and the server so that blitzin is the _only_ interface that will work.  And then
>>they can take countermeasures inside blitzin to address the cheating issue,
>>without having all the other interfaces that would not have the countermeasures
>>included.
>>
>>Until that happens, it is hopeless...
>>
>
>Even this is hopeless if the cheater has a second computer. No matter what
>measures you take, there will always be someone who figures out a way around
>them.
>
>[snip]
>
>KarinsDad :)


Correct...  but that adds another well-known signature that can be caught.  It
takes time to flip from one computer to another...



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