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<LI><em>From</em>: "Koster, Raph" <<A HREF="mailto:rkoster#origin,ea.com">rkoster#origin,ea.com</A>></LI>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: AR Schleicher [<A HREF="mailto:ars#nwu,edu">mailto:ars#nwu,edu</A>]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 1999 7:20 PM
> To: mud-dev#kanga,nu
> Subject: RE: [MUD-Dev] Containing automation?
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> At 06:08 PM 7/20/99 -0500, Koster, Raph wrote:
>
> >The basic initial tool is memory snooping to alter
> client-side memory. This
> >is easily done by running your client within a process that
> is acting as a
> >debugger. If you're foolish enough to trust the client,
> there's quite a lot
> >that can be done here. We didn't trust the client, so all
> they can do is
> >change the local appearance of things on their screen.
>
> Just to clear things up here, this should really be: "We trusted the
> client at first, but realized how foolish this was, and have
> since stopped
> trusting it.", or "We don't trust the client anymore, ..."
> UO has improved
> quite a bit as time has gone by.
Well, we went into it with the mindset of "we don't trust the client." But
it is frighteningly easy to slip up. :)
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00083" HREF="msg00083.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Containing automation?</A></strong>,
Ling <a href="mailto:K.L.Lo-94#student,lboro.ac.uk">K.L.Lo-94#student,lboro.ac.uk</a>, Mon 09 Aug 1999, 16:58 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00078" HREF="msg00078.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Containing automation?</A></strong>,
Adam Wiggins <a href="mailto:adam#angel,com">adam#angel,com</a>, Tue 03 Aug 1999, 00:27 GMT
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