FLSAC: Freelancer - Stucuk's Anti-Cheat System

[Stucuk]

Sorry, I vote against by principle due to the concept mechanism of said protection. I'm very careful about the software I install on my systems to ensure their longevity and stability which are essential to my work. Quite naturally I wouldn't trust a bit unless proven otherwise (so yes, typically I use open source software). Plus such system would be quite easy to circumvent unless it is applied as a wrapper around main executable, but at that point I'd be even further against such method.

Its not easy to get around. As i said, if you didn't run the app the server would kick you after 45 seconds and you wouldn't be able to connect again for 1 minute(which would put people off from trying to terrorise a server if they could only play for 45 seconds then had to wait 1 minute). The FHook side would be open source, but the actual DLL's which get the fingerprints and send them to the server could never be open source, if they were then you could easily write your own application to get around the system.

I don't get why u wouldn't "Trust" a community project to help defend against people modding ini files. The application ONLY sends information to the ip address of the server. The server side doesn't send anything but only recieves information. Its imposible for anything bad to happen by running the software as no information is being sent anywhere except to the server you want to play on.

The concept of "guilty until proven otherwise" is ridiculous.

You can eather put up with people using mods to cheat, or something can be done to help prevent it. You can't have a "inicent until proven guilty" which will work as quickley as one which takes the opposite approch. You also may want to note that inicent people currently are getting PERMANENTLY banned from discovery for doing nothing wrong, my system which takes the opposite approch only temp bans you for 1 minute to 5 minutes.

A nice idea, but wouldn't the exe file be 'hacked' since there are some people out there that can crack any file open and send a 'false' fingerprint?

Any system can be cracked. Any safe can be cracked. Everything that you make someone could counter. Iv tryed to put as meny anti-cracking methods as i can into the system, but no system is 100% secure.

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