So BSG is trying to kill ammo charts? We wouldn’t have any way of knowing which ammo is effective without datamined information like that.

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    1 year ago

    I feel like if you don’t want someone to know about something in the data you give them, maybe don’t put that information into the data you give them? I think it’s ludicrous for them to believe that it’s actually illegal for individuals to look at and decipher the code in the product they’ve purchased.

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      Well, unfortunately due to the nature of modern live-service games, we don’t actually own the game. We own a license to play the game.

      That being said, if you give me a binary and expect me to run it on my personal hardware that I do in fact own, don’t be surprised if I decide to reverse engineer it to try and understand what the binary is doing.

      And while yes, malicious actors such as cheaters and threat actors will reverse engineer programs looking for ways to do harm, security researchers and dataminers will reverse engineer programs looking for vulnerabilities that need to be fixed, malicious code such as cryptominers (anyone remember ESEA?), and undocumented mechanics (all of the wiki lol).