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#12425
Author: PBSTAFF_Tony
Rank: Boot Camp
Date: 11/05/03 10:08PM
Hello RvS Community,
I just wanted to drop by to give you a quick heads up.
PunkBuster has been silently tracking the PB GUIDs of punks using a certain private hack for some time. This hack has claimed to be undetectable even from before PB was out for RvS (which is quite humorous). There are no undetectable hacks once we have a copy (and we have had many copies of this hack sent to us over the past months).
At any rate, some of you may have seen PB kicking for Global Bans recently as we have started banning the PB GUIDs associated with the use of hacking or interfering with PB's normal operation. If you have seen forum posts or heard rumors about hacks that PB doesn't detect, you should assume that the posters are misinformed and that we were silently detecting all this time. Please do not try to test any cheat or hack which interferes with PB or it may get you globally banned from PB servers. We do not reverse these bans. By reading and accepting our license (EULA), all PB users should know that we can and will terminate the license to use PB as we see fit and we take that job seriously for the good of the community.
The GUID tracking I refer to is server side only. No personal or private data of any kind was observed nor transmitted from any players' computers (as always). We simply chose not to have PB Servers kick and report certain violations.
We do not publish our ban list nor the player names used when the silent violations were raised. If league/ladder admins have specific requests about incidents during league matches, they may provide us with PB logs covering the time of disputed matches and we will try to determine if such a silent violation was raised during the match and let the league admin handle the situation from there.
We are happy to be a part of the RvS community and look forward to continuing to improve PB's work here in the future.
-Tony
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