How I Cheated Mozilla's New HTML5 Game - Browser Quest

Re:How I Cheated Mozilla's New HTML5 Game - Browser Quest by rprime on Saturday March 31, 2012 @09:36AM (#3780266)

I don't know why this hit the front page, shouldn't that be a logical thing to assume when it comes to HTML5 games? That HTML5 games are not secure and in order to get what you want you just need to have some Google Dev tools skills.

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Re:How I Cheated Mozilla's New HTML5 Game - Browser Quest by nkassis on Saturday March 31, 2012 @09:42AM (#3780278)

No that's not the problem. This is no different than what game such as World of Warcraft have to deal with, you can't trust the client. The server should be validating the players moves, gear etc.

Sure you can hack the javascript easier than you can a compiled program but that never stopped modders.

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Re:How I Cheated Mozilla's New HTML5 Game - Browser Quest by starwed on Saturday March 31, 2012 @12:53PM (#3780768)

>The server should be validating the players moves, gear etc.

Well, only if it matters. Here it just doesn't.

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Re:How I Cheated Mozilla's New HTML5 Game - Browser Quest by nkassis on Saturday March 31, 2012 @08:45PM (#3782103)

That's true it's just a demo but it should be clear that this is not a fault of using a browser&javascript.

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Re:How I Cheated Mozilla's New HTML5 Game - Browser Quest by clippit on Saturday March 31, 2012 @10:09AM (#3780325)

It's just a demo so there's no strange at all, IMHO

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