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Doom 3 Requests- PunkBuster and URL Redirection
SCDS_reyalP
(SCDS_reyalP)
#23
No, it wouldn’t.
Note also that the people in that thread are most likely confused.
ouroboro
(ouroboro)
#25
hehe, call me a cold hearted bastard, but that’s flat hysterical. i love these naive internet newbies who just download whatever someone tells them and takes orders from strangers who they only know as a text name.
i’ve said it before and i’ll say it forever: the internet should require a license just like driving does…
@escapedturkey: correct, but pb doesn’t stop people from downloading shady “mods”, heh
SCDS_reyalP
(SCDS_reyalP)
#26
Sigh. PB is anticheat not intrusion detection. While somewhat similar in concept, these are too completely different things. A mod that reads an arbitrary file on your computer is perfectly legitimate from PBs point of view. Indeed, it could install a rootkit, and PB wouldn’t care…
A mod, by definition, is approved by the server, so is not a cheat, and so does not concern PB.
If you stop and think for a moment about how one can write a brand new mod, and have it work on PB servers, it should be rather obvious.
All this is rather beside the point, because the mod is question almost certainly caused the key in use message because of an error, not because it actually stole the key. While I haven’t verified it myself, from what I’ve heard, the mod is strictly a .def file change, and contains no code at all (not surprising, since the gamecode is not public yet), and so could not steal anyones CD key.