article: anti-cheaters: underground

[CSN NewsBot]

Our own Sublyme (Austin) has slapped up a new article about a very interesting subject -- the underground anti-cheating movement:

However, a group of people have developed an effective way of stopping cheats, and that's the good old art of espionage. Espionage may be the Counter-Strike community's last hope, our Hercules.



Picture this -- a regular cs player approaches a cheating clan and offers his programming services. Over time, he is given confidential cheat information and is given top secret cheats -- top secret for a reason, as these clans don't want them leaked to services like Cheating-Death, CSGuard, Paladin, or, even in its heyday, PunkBuster. The programmer is a plant in a war for a game. He is secretly relaying these cheats and information back to anti-cheat programmers.

As you can tell, it's quite an interesting read. Go read it and tell us what you think.

[Sikkibahm]

secret agent man

[gorktic]

superb job sublyme.

[Exo]

im the underground dude

[synthetic]

Has this actually happened on a large scale yet?

[Sublyme]

Edited by [user="2072"] @ [time="1011911180"]

it's been happening on a large scale for the past couple months - like I said, there is at least 1 undercover agent in EVERY cheating clan - and these guys feel so big. I laugh at them. But thank the guys in the field, not me - I just chronicled what they do.



btw thx gork

[gorktic]

ESTA BIEN PERFECTO!

[Unregistered]

i sell cheats from the trunk of my car at the side of the road in a bad area of town

[street]

Nice feature, and a great idea. The second bloke interviewed mentions making life hard for cheaters. Well, how are these for examples?

Me and a mate are playing on a server with one crappy bastard cheater on it. Conveniently, FF is on. So we take turns TKing him. My mate kills him and then dies at the start of the next round for TKing. As the cheat laughs at my mate's misfortune... I run in an headshot the fucker. We repeat the process. He never gets to play a round after that and so he leaves.

The second one is even better. We were playing cs_prospeedball (relieves stress) and there was a cheater that was headshotting us before we could do the plan above... so we waited until we had killed him on one round. There was only me and my mate left on opposing teams. So rather than hunting each other and killing each other, we went to the middle of the map and began chatting about the weather and the news. The cheat got so bored he eventually left! The other few players on the server knew what we were doing so they stayed... worked like a charm!!

[Anist]

great articles sublyme. team E are now Xtra Anti Cheat. The cheat scanner is in beta, and we think it can go a long way to stopping cheats in all games. We are now working on Unreal Tournament as well. Ne1 wants any help or a job www.xtragaming.com and irc.quakenet.org #xtragaming are where we will help you out. We'd appreciate your views and advice.

[Kaino]

Great article my friend, great article. I thought for a while to myself, "why dosn't anyone just go underground and destroy cheats from their sources?". But apparently, people are way ahead of me here. Reading it made me smile.

[Obsidan]

Pure gold my friend. Promise me youll never leave CSN for UKT =)

[gobd]

damn cable modem crashes even 2 minutes, have to keep releasing and re-newing the ip address to get it work

[RabidLeper]

I don't know about the,

there is at least 1 undercover agent in EVERY cheating clan

part. I tend to doubt something like that very much.

[Sublyme]

Obsidan wrote..

Pure gold my friend. Promise me youll never leave CSN for UKT =)

Well, I don't think that'll be an issue unless I ever move to the UK ;P