• PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Yeah, this is a pretty classic honeypot method. Basically make something available but inaccessible to the normal user. Then you know anyone who accesses it is not a normal user.

    I’ve even seen this done with Steam achievements before; There was a hidden game achievement which was only available via hacking. So anyone who used hacks immediately outed themselves with a rare achievement that was visible on their profile.

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      9 months ago

      That’s a bit annoying as it means you can’t 100% the game as there will always be one achievement you can’t get.

    • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca
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      9 months ago

      There are tools that just flag you as having gotten an achievement on Steam, you don’t even have to have the game open to do it. I’d hardly call that ‘hacking’.