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Hunter
Mar 8, 2001, 04:00 AM
ok, this is not a topic to condone the incident. but a possibility. Frankly i'm
just curoius if it's possible, which would make a possible threat to the community.


Thought: altering, or locking a section of the code in PSO, that tell's the server
where your at etc. and causing an intentional BSOD, for the users in that game
session you have.. or even more worse. cause a glitch in the system making the
server reset.

Opinions: ??? any of you people see this as a plausible risk? it would mainly be
by those who have a memory editor. or unless you have ROM of the DC system,
and run it from a pc of course... but a work around the serial registration would
also need to be done?

Why: hoping staff would look into this "i'm sure they did" by encrypting the code to some extent. but either way, since all the improbabilites that people thought of cheating in PSO would be possible or not has already occurred.
I wouldn't be surprised if somebody made a push to tilt the system.. pinball style.
any of ya'll see this as a risk? ya ya.. why would somebody want to... i've
seen silly'r things on the news, i'm sure there's silly people that have thought of
this also all in bad humer...