What This Shortcut Will Cover

This digital shortcut introduces one of the many technical conundrums in online gaming: how to stop cheating and piracy without invading personal privacy. Our upcoming book, Exploiting Online Games, anticipated for release in mid-2007, provides deeper coverage of both the legal and technical aspects of online game security. Our forthcoming book will provide examples of advanced, undetectable cheating systems and countermeasures to prevent them.

In this digital shortcut, we introduce a specific type of cheating common in certain online games, discuss what many gaming companies are doing to combat cheating technically, worry over the personal privacy implications of these monitoring systems, and show you how to keep ...

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