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The cat-and-mouse battle between game makers and cheat makers has taken many creative twists and turns over the years. Against this background, dota 2 The recently uncovered “honeypot” trap hidden within the game’s memory buffer stands out.
In a blog post this week, Valve revealed the existence of this trap that was released as part of an earlier update to the game. Valve said the update contained “sections of data within the game client that are never read during normal gameplay.”but that memory can It can be read by third-party cheat tools that use exploits to sniff (and share) internal data normally invisible to the player.
To enable honeypot traps, all Valve had to do was watch for accounts that tried to read from its “secret” memory area. An event that, according to Valve, will lead to “a very high degree of confidence that every ban is well deserved.” .
Valve says it has closed the exploit that allowed this unauthorized data access in the first place, but the deployment of the honeypot in the first place unleashed a “particularly large” wave of bans on more than 40,000 accounts. It also means that we were able to The company is now revealing its secret methods, saying, “To clarify our position, Tsuchida If the client is playing the game, the account can be permanently banned TsuchidaIn doing so, Valve has involved many players cheating their status and in-game content, and has been able to sabotage players who cheat to make money or exercise power over game makers. was also helpful.
But now that Valve’s honeypot is out, it seems fairly unlikely that a similar system will be effective in catching cheaters in the future. , the cheat tool may be designed to carefully identify only valid and useful memory addresses and access only that “safe” data in a less detectable way.
Still, for a pure messaging power play, nothing beats a big revelation that shows exactly how they caught tens of thousands of scammers who they probably thought were untouchable. As the .
