We Outsmarted CSGO Cheaters with IdentityLogger

Re:We Outsmarted CSGO Cheaters with IdentityLogger by johnisgood on Wednesday October 16, 2024 @06:38PM (#41864577)

> IP bans only go so far with VPNs costing $2 these days.

https://redman.xyz/doku.php/schachtmeister2 was made specifically against people using VPNs.

It was made for Tremulous (ioquake3 fork) where people kept evading IP bans, but it can be used for any other games.

It is not my project, but I know the author, and I could personally fork it and make it suitable for specific (or any) games if there is demand for it.

You may also use heuristics, too, in schachtmeister2:

  whois   -10     "Hosting"
  whois   -10     "hosting"
  whois   -7      "Server"
  whois   -4      "server"
  whois   -10     "VPS"
  whois   -13     "VPN"
  whois   -3      "Private Network"
  whois   +7      "residential"
  whois   +7      "Residential"
  whois   -20     "Dedicated Server"

Edit: I noticed that the git repository returns 502, contacted the maintainer.

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Re:We Outsmarted CSGO Cheaters with IdentityLogger by lloeki on Thursday October 17, 2024 @02:56AM (#41867096)

> IP bans only go so far with VPNs

Even without this IP bans only go so far as they're both easily swapped (VPN offers, or rent a VPS to forward traffic, or even by design with an ISP handing out dynamic IPs on router reboot) AND overreaching:

- NAT: ban household / campus

- CGNAT: ban whole neighbourhood

- IPv6: ban whole /64 => whole household (because of SLAAC + random privacy addresses)

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Re:We Outsmarted CSGO Cheaters with IdentityLogger by johnisgood on Thursday October 17, 2024 @05:52AM (#41867996)

OK, https://redman.xyz/git/schachtmeister2 now works (cgit), and it can be cloned, too.

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Re:We Outsmarted CSGO Cheaters with IdentityLogger by johnisgood on Tuesday October 29, 2024 @12:58PM (#41986553)

FWIW, the original author has no intentions improving it, so a mutual friend kind of took over its development: https://zolk3ri.name/cgit/schachtmeister2/

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Re:We Outsmarted CSGO Cheaters with IdentityLogger by Rohansi on Thursday October 17, 2024 @11:32AM (#41870602)

Residential VPNs are more common now with cheaters to bypass VPN blocks.

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Re:We Outsmarted CSGO Cheaters with IdentityLogger by amonon on Thursday October 17, 2024 @01:05PM (#41871465)

Is there still an active tremulous community? I have fond memories of that game.

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Re:We Outsmarted CSGO Cheaters with IdentityLogger by johnisgood on Thursday October 17, 2024 @01:10PM (#41871516)

Unfortunately not anymore, everyone moved to Unvanquished[1] (made by ex-Tremulous players).

You are very welcome on their Discord server, or Der Bunker's[2] (Zittrig) Discord server, too!

We may know each other. :)

[1] https://unvanquished.net/ (https://unvanquished.net/chat/)

[2] https://discord.gg/nubnh8PGnG

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