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Yikes, I recognize the names of the things in there from beta and in game interactions with Developers. Of course, he could be making it up from having become familiarized with it in beta, but I actually think he's telling the truth.

Either way though, he's a gimp.

I just thought it was a somewhat interesting read. Presuming he's reliable, and told the truth, he could've been more discrete and probably gotten away with it for a long time. Not get busted after a few days. Who knows, like I said, just something to waste a few minutes.

Though he could've furnished screenshots if he's as uber as he says.

I don't care what SOE says regarding this guy. What he did is very impressive. At that level of understanding, its really not cheating, its owning the game. He did not play his character, he just acted like a GM. If the guy can find ways around an entire staff of programmers, managers, etc.. whose sole purpose is to prevent cheating, then he has improved the game in my book. Now SOE realizes that there are single persons smarter then their collective whole and they better get their butt's in gear.

I have absolutely no knowledge of how this guy accomplished it. I am barely able to turn a computer on and will most certainly never reach the higher end game. However, I really enjoy the game from a newbie perspective and its guys like that who helped make it so. Just my opinion.

Well, don't give them too much credit, most often those security flaws are knowingly put in as a sacrifice for game playability. Putting in the ability to check for all the loopholes would make the game effectively unplayable for everyone else.

For example, these popular hacks are all basically client hacks, where they take advantage of speed being controlled on your own computer to warp around or move super fast in game. Suppose that speed wasn't controlled client side in order to prevent all the speed hacking that happens (where people remove some checks/modify how fast their character moves, or lets them teleport around). Suddenly, anyone that lags at all would effectively freeze in place whenever they hit a lag spike. Very bad playability, and they knowingly put themselves at risk from a hack in order to have a more playable game.

That's why I dislike hacking like this, because most often the only option is to make the game -worse- in order to deal with it, or just allow it to continue on and try to catch people. I imagine the /open command will probably get a bit more clunky in design since this guy hacked the client to trick it into thinking all NPCs were chests and ran around /opening them for instant kills.