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We outsmarted CSGO cheaters with IdentityLogger

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379 points mobeigi | 1 comments | 16 Oct 24 18:18 UTC | HN request time: 0s | 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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TechDebtDevin ◴[17 Oct 24 02:05 UTC] No.41865762[source]▶
Who is gaming in a competitive game behind a VPN.. I suppose if its your only option, but I don't think this would be a great playing experience.
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plx211 ◴[17 Oct 24 09:06 UTC] No.41867749[source]▶
When I was in the dormitory (~6-8 years ago), I used VPN (OpenVPN on my private VPS) over UDP port 53 to omit the firewall which was configured to block big parts of ports.
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1. sidewndr46 ◴[17 Oct 24 13:29 UTC] No.41869490[source]▶
Oh wow that takes me back. I remember complaining to the university that I couldn't download files via FTP. A few months later they answered me explaining file sharing protocols had no legitimate uses at a university. I was working in a research lab and needed to download standardized datasets to validate that the software worked as intended. At the time, only FTP was used.