03-04-2003, 02:59 AM
Hi,
It is really quite simple. But too expensive. First, hire someone that actually knows how to do secure client-server. Second, rewrite the D2 code in its entirety so that only the information necessary for each player is passed to each player and only control input is accepted from the client. Then delete all realm characters and start over.
Or, in other words, do the job they should have done in the first place.
Of course, it would have no effect on open -- but so what? Open was never meant to be secure anyway.
--Pete
It is really quite simple. But too expensive. First, hire someone that actually knows how to do secure client-server. Second, rewrite the D2 code in its entirety so that only the information necessary for each player is passed to each player and only control input is accepted from the client. Then delete all realm characters and start over.
Or, in other words, do the job they should have done in the first place.
Of course, it would have no effect on open -- but so what? Open was never meant to be secure anyway.
--Pete
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