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Hacking needs a revamp..
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Gaijin Lanis
Gallente Federation
#21 - 2014-06-09 15:22:18 UTC
SurrenderMonkey wrote:
There's a lot of wiggle room between, "Click on nodes until you find the magic node and then click the magic node until it goes away!" and, "Overwrite the return address of a vulnerable function to point to your lovingly crafted shellcode," though.

To be fair, thousands of years in the future "hacking" would most likely be "point your pet AI at the AI of target system and wait. Forever. As target AI has significantly more resources at it's disposal than yours."

While I also don't really like the whackamole hacking game (it should be multilevel, at least), the fact we've got hacking at all in this game is pretty far outside the realm of "realism."

The above was written and posted with nothing but love in my heart for all.
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