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We outsmarted CSGO cheaters with IdentityLogger

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379 points mobeigi | 2 comments | 16 Oct 24 18:18 UTC | HN request time: 0.405s | source
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snarfy ◴[16 Oct 24 19:21 UTC] No.41862807[source]▶
For UT2004, you can ban by player GUID (a hash of the CD key) or IP. With the game abandoned by Epic, a number of key generators have cropped up, which makes GUID bans useless. IP bans only go so far with VPNs costing $2 these days.

The main solutions we have today are IP ban + VPN blocking using a database of known VPN subnets and adding them all to the firewall, and a similar fingerprinting technique which scans their folder structure of certain system folders.

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ghxst ◴[16 Oct 24 19:51 UTC] No.41863123[source]▶
This still leaves you wide open to cheaters using mobile data tethering and proxies. Have you considered more advanced network analysis? It's one of the areas I have an interest in (professionally and personally) so if you want any suggestions let me know.
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ec109685 ◴[17 Oct 24 03:18 UTC] No.41866117[source]▶
Want does mobile data tethering make it harder to ban an IP address?
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1. kmeisthax ◴[17 Oct 24 03:45 UTC] No.41866234[source]▶
Mobile networks are all IPv6. IPv4 traffic is behind CGNAT. As a result, you can't ban individual cheaters, you have to ban the whole network.
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2. ec109685 ◴[17 Oct 24 14:58 UTC] No.41870284[source]▶
I don’t think CGNAT is particularly limited to mobile networks. If you don’t serve traffic on IPv6, more and more of it will be proxied.