The intelligent reader will remain objective and above the level of competition.
To wit:
steambans is a "anti-cheat technology solution" and is therefore a competing solution to VAC regardless of any non-objective opining performances in forums or elsewhere.
Therefore I categorize steambans non-authoritive information to be possible disinformation.
Of course there is the possibility the steambans information is accurate.
However, any organization choosing to publish such information should be prepared to back it up with the scientific facts regarding how they arrived at such conclusions. Unfortunately, to admit to dissassembly of a comercial product's binaries is a certain invitation to litigation. Therefore steambans must claim they acquired this information from "the cheat community".
Anyone who pays any attention or credence to anything out of the cheat community is: a. stupid for even considering accessing such organizations for any reason. b. supportiung the goals of the cheat authors personality disorders by listening to them and thinking they know what they are talking about. c. being used as propoganda agents of the cheat community.
Maybe the cheat community is a bunch of smart geeks and maybe they are right. But they are humans in sore need of psychiatric treatment and are therefore moot as far as any legitimacy is concerned.
I say again, steambans requires you give them your rcon password. a patently stupid idea anyway you look at it. And, when I signed up a couple of dozen servers there, the only time steambans ever scanned the servers was during the signup. therefore all steambans did was acquire my rcon passwords.
What is the probability that the cheat community is a part of steambans and therefore has access to all those rcon passwords? And what about those cheat consoles I heard about that can log onto any steambans protected server with rcon access? (possible BS?)
Sadly, steambans remains a noble yet totally idiotic attempt at cheat prevention as it still requires the "judgement" of a "judge panel" as to whether a player is cheating or not. The "Global Ban List" was probably more accurate even with all of it's obvious flaws. And, the "Global Ban List" did not require anyone to reveal their rcon passwords.
By all means go sign up on steambans and give them your rcon passwords. Send them your credit card and identity info while you are at it to serve as a "JIT Donation" device.
Please redirect your flames to my email account.
Michael Kn�rzer wrote:
Hi guys - for those of you who haven't read it yet:
http://www.steambans.com/news.php?id=1296
- mike
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