Re: Games (faking scores and things btw)

[Horacio J. Peña <horape compendium com ar>]

¡Hola!

>  > Having worked in session-management support for same-gnome i'm facing
>  > a pretty problem. It's the same problem all saved games have. The users
>  > can edit them. So anyone can have 100,000 points (5 times the best score
>  > possible...) or more very easily...

>  > What can we do? I think that we've four options:
>  > 1. Ignore the issue. But if we ignore it why take the effort of checking that
>  > the program that wants writing into the score-log is a real gnome program?
> Source is available for modification; therefore the program cannot be
> trusted; therefore the database cannot be trusted.  Don't worry about it.
Nope, the program can be trusted if it is running from GNOMEDIR. So only root
can change it.

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