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by Zoo3y 1902 days ago
>Kunshan police found and destroyed 17 cheats and arrested 10 people in connection with the ring.

How do they destroy cheats?

2 comments

These cheats often phone home for operation, destroy the servers and they won't work
Pretty much this, it's a massive "criminals don't trust criminals" thing. I've seen numerous cheats have hardware blacklists that remote-wipe people they dislike, phone home with ludicrous amounts of PII to disincentivise account sharing or key sharing, attempting to reverse engineer a "private cheat" might result in the uploading of your computer, etc.
rm -rf /

?

sudo !!
xD