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26048: Re: [MUD-Dev] Star Wars Galaxies: 1 character per server

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From: Lars Duening <lars@bearnip.com>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 15:41:38 -0700
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
Wes Connell wrote:

> Who says that the player has to attack the encryption head-on? In
> the growing market of the MMOG, I would not be suprised to see a
> developer who created the encryption or someone who has access to
> keys to be bribed/persuaded/extorted in some way.

Ah, that's what you meant.

Ok, valid point, but when you take social hacking into
consideration, _anything_ is possible - free additional accounts in
an SCS game, stat boosts, selective tweaks to game paramaters,
backdoors into the system to modify the character data on the server
- you name it. Recovering from this type of attack is always going
to be a case of tough decisions.

--
Lars Duening; lars@bearnip.com
GPG Key: http://www.bearnip.com/lars/lars-duening.gpgkey

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