David Fencik wrote:
I think you are confusing hackers with script kiddies. I don't think most of the people who cheat in halflife are very intelligent.
Yep I suspect you are right, but there will still be a hardcore crowd out there that are programmers capable of understanding, if not writing, cheats and hacks. Then there will be the crowd of "regular hackers" that, like us lot on this list, receive regular updates or go and read up on a variety of topical web sites. After that you've got the rest of them.
Admittedly the first group is a very small percentage of the community. The second is probably considerably larger, leaving the remainder pretty much as opportunitist hackers/cheaters and those too dense to know any better as probably the biggest group.
Its not the last group that you really want to stop. Well you do, but they aren't the root of the problem. Its the regulars cheaters and hackers-proper that are the one you need to put a stop to. This kind of scheme would work well on the regular cheaters for a short time, because they are the ones that would pick up and test out new cheats/hacks without knowing what they are doing under the hood. Of course that would only last until they get warned off by the hackers-proper and this crowd wouldn't be taken in at all.
The trouble with the regular cheaters is that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Once they get wind that they are being scammed thats when the ddos attacks start. They don't need to be terribly intelligent. They only need a little bit of knowledge.
~shrug~ every community has a hierarchy.
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