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How I Defeated an MMO Game Hack Author

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67 points thunderbong | 1 comments | 22 Oct 24 17:01 UTC | HN request time: 0.209s | source
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a_t48 ◴[26 Oct 24 05:58 UTC] No.41952885[source]▶
This is very familiar. I spent a few weeks on a mobile game hiding various values in memory (using lua metadata magic to make it transparent to the designers!) Eventually it turned out the best thing to be done was just to ban all jailbroken iOS users and be done with it.
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langsoul-com ◴[26 Oct 24 07:44 UTC] No.41953244[source]▶
The Web equivalent is to ban China, Russia, SEA, South America from being able to use your Web service.

Actually super effective

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1. ok_dad ◴[26 Oct 24 08:01 UTC] No.41953325[source]▶
As effective as using an atomic bomb to kill flies!