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Re:Thank You, Valve by charcircuit on Monday February 07, 2022 @09:25AM (#30245241)
We have to trust the client to an extent. How can a server tell if a player clicked their mouse or if a triggerbot did?
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Re:Thank You, Valve by dagw on Monday February 07, 2022 @09:32AM (#30245346)
The officially approved mouse timestamps and signs the click using a hardware embedded cryptographic key (only slightly joking).
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Re:Thank You, Valve by anamexis on Monday February 07, 2022 @09:44AM (#30245499)
That's when you just rig up a solenoid to click the real mouse :P
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Re:Thank You, Valve by dagw on Monday February 07, 2022 @09:59AM (#30245702)
fingerprint/palmprint sensor on the mouse... plus of course timestamped continuous video stream of your face and both hands at all times.
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Re:Thank You, Valve by anamexis on Monday February 07, 2022 @10:09AM (#30245819)
Pssh, that's when you just rig up a hyper-realistic android.
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Re:Thank You, Valve by oauea on Monday February 07, 2022 @10:50AM (#30246431)
It can't. There's not much more to say, even with the current anticheat it's no way to be certain a real human being clicked a real mouse. As the other comment shows, you can start adding more and more invasive monitoring solutions but this likely won't be tolerated by many and will eventually be bypassed anyway.
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