dynamic allocation of the memory offsets for encryption??

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dynamic allocation of the memory offsets for encryption??

Post by eqjoe » Tue May 13, 2003 12:53 pm

Hey guys... check out this post:

http://seq.sourceforge.net/forums/showt ... eadid=3416


This will cause some serious hassle. If this is implemented, we will have to use offset detection code... probably another dll ... I guess we could get the exe to do that discovery before injecting eqlib.dll. Damn offset hackers have SoE pissing themselfs.



What do you think?

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Post by dont_know_at_all » Tue May 13, 2003 5:46 pm

Feh, they have to use pointers to the dynamic data. We'll use the pointers too.

The problem will be finding them all.

Did they already put this on the test server?

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Post by Amadeus » Tue May 13, 2003 6:32 pm

bah...now I'll probably have to relearn all this ;)

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Post by eqjoe » Wed May 14, 2003 3:05 am

This is being developed now from what I understand. SoE's solution in the long run is log parsing and banning.... for example.. when someone banks, log thier loc and if its not withing range of a banker.. .autoban. However, banning is not good for the bottom line... blowing off paying customers.. even if they are cheaters is money lost.

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Post by Amadeus » Wed May 14, 2003 3:26 am

my god at the log file ;)

Either way, hackers will find a way around it. Like I posted before, Sony screwed up ...they should have left it as it was last October when everything was in a groove and no one was getting hurt ;)

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Post by vzmule » Thu May 15, 2003 1:16 am

3rd hand information from a friend of a guide who heard it from an "soe employee" doesn't do shit for me....I was a Guide for over 2 years and still have a number of friends that are GMs, Lead-GMs and 2 developer "acquaintances" that I just keep in touch with via email or icq and I don't know jack about what they do with anti-hack coding.

So...While that is always a possibility of happening, I wouldn't put too much stock in it at this point.

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Post by eqjoe » Thu May 15, 2003 8:32 pm

source wrote:3rd hand information from a friend of a guide who heard it from an "soe employee" doesn't do shit for me....I was a Guide for over 2 years and still have a number of friends that are GMs, Lead-GMs and 2 developer "acquaintances" that I just keep in touch with via email or icq and I don't know jack about what they do with anti-hack coding.

So...While that is always a possibility of happening, I wouldn't put too much stock in it at this point.
You know.. your right. It is prolly just talk.

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Post by Jay » Fri May 16, 2003 4:28 am

It is not really something we can plan ahead for anyway so...

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