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'I had my fun' says hacker who used Call of Duty anti-cheat exploit to ban 'thousands upon thousands' of innocent players (www.pcgamer.com)

submitted 2 years ago by alessandro@lemmy.ca to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca

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[–] renegadespork@lemmy.blahaj.zone 28 points 2 years ago (1 child)

a list of hardcoded strings

Violating a core programming tenet right off the bat. I wonder how much money Activision payed for this software...

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[–] ramjambamalam@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 years ago

We and the hacker have no idea if this list is config driven or truly "hard coded" i.e. a const in the source code. It's hardly an indicator of violating a core programming tenet.

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