FLSAC: Freelancer - Stucuk's Anti-Cheat System

[Stucuk]

For example well-known Warden system from WoW, which performs both client-side and server-side processing. However this solution doesn't seem to be trustworthy yet, at least in my personal opinion. I would not rush all too fast about it or put high hopes.

The fact is that the warden client reads information from other processes on the computer. Regardless of the reasons, this technically counts as 'spying' on a user. So, reasons aside, the term 'spyware' is fitting

One thing id like to note is that my system only reads ini files and sur files, it doesn't scan your pc, or do anything else. It just makes a database of "fingerprints" and sends them to the server you are playing on. So its not spying on processes for known cheating applications, etc.

EDIT: Basically what the embedding would do is compare the said INI's to the ones in the program, and stop or shut down Freelancer if a change is found.

You would still have to contact the server, it would also mean that you would have to build the program specificaly for a mod, rather than having a generic client.

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