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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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