[Savannah-hackers] Re: submission of Voyeur - Linux game hacking tool - savannah.nongnu.org

[Mathieu Roy]

Hugo Gayosso <address@hidden> said:

> Mathieu Roy <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > But if there's so many scanning programs for games, it also means
> > that many people are enjoying these programs (it is not a big
> > surprise to me that many people enjoy unfair tools).
> 
> On the other hand, the 'tool' is not unfair in itself, unfair would be
> the person using it to take advantage in a game.
> 
> If the only result of using the 'tool' is to cause harm or unfairness
> then we should think about it, but if the 'tool' provides other kind
> of results then I guess it would be the same as with network sniffing
> tools, etc.

I cannot think of any other use case than unfairly playing over the
net. 

Most of the games always provided "cheat code" for single player
mode. When you need a software to cheat, it's usually against others
players. 

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