Fighting hacks

[Calvin Candie 189]

Hey everyone,

Hacking is making a lot of people avoid packed 40/40 servers as those servers by rule attract hackers. People do not want to loose their character to a teenage kid playing God.

I do not understand programming, zeros and ones, coding or any of the high tech mumbo jumbo might as well all be in mandaring chinese to me.

Can someone please explain why the Devs and Battleye people cannot fix hacking?

Here is how I see it from my layman perspective: hackers modify files to insert scripts into the official servers. These scripts let them teleport, strip clothes of people and whatnot.

Now for the big one:

If an OUTSIDE source is tampering with files on the official server would it not be easy to intercept that tampering by Battleye or Devs? Is there not some kind of trace of intrusion which Battleye could intercept and snap off? There are files coming and going. There are files being modified. This really cannot be traced?

On the risk of sounding like a complete idiot let me ask this:

If someone sticks his hand through the window of your house and steals something, you will be able to spot him if you look, will you not?

I just cannot comprehend that someone can upload files or manipulate existing files on the official server and that these actions cannot be tracked and dealt with.

Please understand I do not get any of this so please explain it to me like you would to a 5 year old :)

P.S. Hacking is a sensitive subject here and I know most threads like this get deleted by the Admins, who are doing a good job IMHO. Hope this thread can swim in the waters of productive discussion to explain this problem to the layman.

If it gets out of line, I expect it to be deleted.

Thanks

[kichilron 8550]

It works nothing like you think, especially not the mgaining access to servers and changing files on the server itself (which is why it's not that easy).

 

The current hacks are actively being worked on and has been a part of the upcoming fixes as well. Let's see what 0.50 will bring on Stable...

 

 

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