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Video Game Cheaters Outed By Logic Bombs

Posted by timothy on from the curiosity-burns-as-hot-as-malice dept.

Lirodon writes: A Reddit user decided to tackle the issue of cheaters within Valve's multiplayer shooter Counter Strike: Global Offensive in their own unique way: by luring them towards fake "multihacks" that promised a motherlode of cheating tools, but in reality, were actually traps designed to cause the users who installed them to eventually receive bans. The first two were designed as time bombs, which activated functions designed to trigger bans after a specific time of day. The third, which was downloaded over 3,500 times, caused instantaneous bans.

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  1. Why do I care abou this? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    If doesn't help prevent cheating in tux racer or bzflag why do I care? This tool was probably written in Rust too, wasn't it? Don't lie

  2. Re:A new low for Slashdot by BronsCon · · Score: 2, Funny

    Why hasn't Netcraft confirmed the death yet?

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    APK quotes people (including myself) without context and should not be trusted. Just thought you should know.
  3. Re:Not a big deal by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    That's right. Cheaters were discarded by the DoD and hired by the NSA instead.