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Game Consoles -- the Next Hacker Target?
Alex Handy, SecurityFocus 2002-06-19

Xbox and Playstation 2 decks are coming to the Internet in droves this fall. How will they stand up against the legions of hackers waiting for them there?

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Kellogg is scum~! 2002-06-19
Non-Cheater (1 replies)
He is an armored Scrum object! what a lamer! cheating is for wusses who can't play well! And he gets his but kicked in stuffed animal fights.

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Kellogg is scum~! 2002-06-22
NCP
Ahh let it rest. I haved been playing CS from the day it was let lose on the world as a HL mod. I don't cheat and i don't cry about cheaters. its a game. not real life. you can't cheat in life any way. there's a buttload of CS servers up at any given time. you find one with a hack or cheater...

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Game Consoles -- the Next Hacker Target? 2002-06-20
Anonymous
somebody get Nharlothep's phone number so i can give him a piece of my mind. this idiot is one of many people that have ruined my online gaming experience. it's a shame that they suck so bad they have to use cheats in order to feel good, when it really makes them look bad....

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Game Consoles -- the Next Hacker Target? 2002-06-20
Anonymous (1 replies)
>> "It's just a game people"

Network gaming is like going to one of those parks where there are a bunch of guys playing chess(saw it on T.V.).

Going to the park and finding a player willing to play you in a nice game of chess is similar to going on line and finding server to play on.

So, I ...

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Re: Game Consoles -- the Next Hacker Target? 2005-11-02
Anonymous
no it wouldent be fun and are there realy console based commands in a ps2 game i want to know because i have nerver seen one if you ould tell emt htat would be great thanks. ...

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Game Consoles -- the Next Hacker Target? 2002-06-20
crt (1 replies)
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Quake secretly included a deliberate backdoor that potentially allowed an attacker to gain control of any system running the game

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That's a pretty bold statement to make - I'm surprised you didn't research it more before making that accusation. In fact, th...

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Game Consoles -- the Next Hacker Target? 2002-06-21
carnix
crt,

looks like you are the only one who got the point of this article...

The fact is, only the really hardest of core folks have bothered to try hacking consoles. You have to know SO much more than a couple silly UNIX commands to do that, plus you have to buy one and pretty much tear it apart ...

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Cheaters suck. 2002-06-21
Anonymous (1 replies)
I fail to see the use of cheating on online games, it just proves you suck to much to win honestly. Wow, you can win if you can see through walls and have the computer aim for you! No kidding? Why not just write a program to play the game for you and get it over with?

My guess is that it's just a...

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Cheaters suck. 2002-06-21
Anonymous (1 replies)
Word.

If it's "just a game", then why cheat? It's not like winning will get you anything. It makes more sense to cheat on a test or something. At least you profit from it in some way.

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Cheating in a game is like playing with matchbox cars, and having them violate the speed limit (to scale...

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Cheaters suck. 2002-06-22
UeberShark (3 replies)
I dont want to encourage cheating...but i guess if you can loot your players with loads of money and items..then sell it on ebay for REAL profit.....then technically they are getting somthing out of it. just a thought...

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Cheaters suck. 2002-06-25
Nogoodnames
Yeah, if you can sell that stuff on e-bay, cheating does have its advantages!

As does robbing a 7-Eleven with a shotgun (hey, isn't that like "cheating" in real life?). It seems to me that cheating in on-line games against other people is all about POWER! Someone may be a kick butt CS player with...

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Cheaters suck. 2002-06-25
Anonymous
If you've ever played Counterstrike, you know how much cheaters can ruin the game for everyone else. If I get constantly killed by someone who has skill only in downloading and installing cheats, while I actually have some skill in playing the game, it is extremely discouraging and makes it much le...

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Cheaters suck. 2002-06-25
Anonymous (1 replies)
thats not called cheating thats called theft, you know, like when they come and put you in jail?...

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Re: Cheaters suck. 2007-12-12
Anonymous
Usually it is to test their hacking/coding skills.. i hack because im a fucking genius.. i play CoD and i made the fusen hack.. and i make loads of money off of the cod2 fusen because i SELL it.. being a nerd.. pays.. OFF!...

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Game Consoles -- the Next Hacker Target? 2002-06-21
Anonymous
Yeah, he cheats, and he can't spell "Nyarlathotep" either.

As foretold in the Pnakotic Manuscripts, the Cheater who Taketh Ill to the True Name of the Dark Piper of the Gods shall fall, and his fall shall splatter messily, and his splatter shall be music unto the blind ears of Azathoth....

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XBOX online architecture 2002-06-21
dSLAM_3rdC0ast
Currently to get my XBOX online, I have to use my Cable/DSL router. I still only have one IP assigned to my router, which means NAT is handling the addressing of the console and the PC needed to run the online tunnel software.

I have never tried to run the XBOX online with no NAT and one IP on a ...

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cheating - online games 2002-06-24
mr elite (1 replies)
I have just totally abandoned counter strike online. I just play it on my lan at home with friends. I dont want to have anything to do with cheaters, I have gotten to the point where I got so good, I was killing cheaters ( who also ran server) then got booted off for doing so. I more of a white h...

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cheating - online games 2002-06-25
SplashDamage
Hey, speak for yourself buddy, I can often have those types of scores, and I am not cheating, you must all just SUCK!...

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