Re:SimCity mod demonstrates the possibility of offline play
by mmastrac on Thursday March 14, 2013 @12:26PM
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If this were a security product, I would hope so, but I would imagine that they'd just be using a standard HTTPS certificate that uses the system certificate store. I wouldn't be surprised if they were ignoring HTTPS certificate failures as well, like many applications do.
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Re:SimCity mod demonstrates the possibility of offline play
by lucian1900 on Thursday March 14, 2013 @02:03PM
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It is quite common practice for online games to use a hard-coded certificate issued by the publisher's CA, largely to prevent cheating.
Seeing how much effort EA have put into preventing piracy of this game (to the extent that it hurts their paying customers a great deal), I would be very surprised if they made so silly a mistake.