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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: 0.214s | source
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leetbulb ◴[16 Oct 24 19:21 UTC] No.41862811[source]▶
This isn't about stopping cheaters (cheat detection). This is about stopping repeat cheaters trying to ban evade. Detecting cheats, especially nowadays with hardware cheats (DMA, etc), is an entirely different ballgame.

IMHO, one of the most effective way to stop ban evaders is to actually charge money for the game.

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kemitche ◴[16 Oct 24 19:37 UTC] No.41862981[source]▶
At the time of the events in the blog, CS:GO was NOT free, and yet there were still cheaters that apparently had access to 80+ accounts.
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connicpu ◴[16 Oct 24 20:00 UTC] No.41863192[source]▶
Why pay for the game when you can go to an onion site that will sell you hundreds of compromised accounts that own the game for a fraction of the price?
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1. ManlyBread ◴[17 Oct 24 14:52 UTC] No.41870225[source]▶
At that time CS:GO would cost around $3 during various Steam sales and it was possible to buy a huge amount of gift copies that could be stored in your Steam inventory. So one "legit" account would buy lots of copies and then "gift" them to new accounts that would go on a cheating spree.