Not true about where the hackers are getting their accounts from.
The average gamer is in their mid 30's, and is using a credit card to
purchase their new gaming accounts.
Banning the use of the credit card that was used to purchase the account
that was used to hack with, is the single most effective way to prevent the
hacker from simply using that card to buy a new account to hack with.
Furthermore: Since the mac addresses of network hardware can be spoofed,
there is no way (that I'm aware of) to effectivly ban a computer from steam,
or any other gaming platform. The only real way to effectivly keep hackers
off of you're server, is to train you're admins to detect them, and then
harass the hacker so much, that they quit you're server. Most hackers are
stupid and do not even know how to spoof their MAC address, so if you IP ban
them, it may take them days to get back on you're server, due to the fact
that they also probably use cable, and cannot simply release and quickly
renew their IP address, unless it's dynamic.
Then also use GeoIPlocation to check where that hacker was playing from, and
keep it in a database to compare with the next hacker, in order to see if it
may be the same player who was previously caught hacking. Then use some sort
of tool or plugin to notify server admins that a player in the hacker
database has entered the server, and too keep an eye on him.
I run HL1 mods, and use HLTV to record demos of all players 24/7. This will
provide a good way of watching these hackers when you're not on the server.
Valve could easily come up with a solution that would make it very hard for
hackers, but it all comes down to $'s
The thing is, when a company starts buidling any game. SECURITY needs to be
the upper most important thing in their minds.
There are so many bugs and glitches in both HLDS and SRCDS, that if fixed
could make it much easier for server admins to catch and deal with hackers.
EXAMPLE: When running HLDS on any Linux platform and recording a game demo
while playing from a windows OS, the demos are corrupted when played back.
Valve still hasn't fixed that problem.
Message: 4
Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2011 11:32:25 -0800 (PST)
From: Mart-Jan Reeuwijk <[email protected]>
To: Half-Life dedicated Linux server mailing list
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Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] hlds_linux Digest, Vol 46, Issue 104
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Dont agree with banning the credit card, there is no use. Most just buy an
account from some website.
I'd be way more for a system where one could ban their COMPUTER that is
used to cheat. So server admins can ban that. You wont see the hacker back
then. The 5 dollar account that is bought is no counter vs a 500 dollar
pc.
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