News > Intel's Anti-Cheat Technology Will Protect You From Aimbotting Bastards
July 2, 2007
Anybody who plays Counterstrike knows what it's like to deal with cheaters; people who can see through walls or shoot you in the head so impossibly fast that you can't even return fire. After a couple rounds of the frustration of playing against somebody nearly invincible, it isn't very fun anymore. In response, Intel is developing hardware that will actually try to stop cheating.
The concept is simple, the chipset records all input from the keyboard and mouse, and the game does the same. If the two don't match, something is giving inputs to the game that should not be, and you are 'cheating'. This is how most of the common hacks out there work.
Unfortunately, the cure may be more dangerous than the disease. Do we really want our computers logging and reporting our every mouse movement or keystroke? This has a little bit of the same smell as the Trusting Computing initiative, which similarly bugs all of our computers. I say, sometimes you can go too far in the name of security, and this Intel tech could possibly be exploited for nefarious purposes.
*Brian Schulman - Associate Editor, GameWad.com
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