BF2S Forums Poll. Do you think BF2 should be Open Sourced?

DeathUnlimited wrote:

No.

People care too much for stats, and that would lead to the obvious: Point haxing.

DeathUnlimited wrote:

Anfidurl wrote:

DeathUnlimited wrote:

No.

People care too much for stats, and that would lead to the obvious: Point haxing.

You put too little faith into the open source community. Go look at how secure Linux is, with all the eyes looking at the code for vulnerabilities. Many more eyes looking than at Redmond, for sure.

I am using Ubuntu right this second . The fact that linux's open source works, and gathers almost no viruses is because the computer using is so well restricted. Applications can't install themselves like in windows. Most of the important apps are downloaded straight from the secure servers. The application environment just is much better than in Windows.

Now the bf2 is different. People make viruses etc. to ruin things. In bf2 the code editing wouldn't lead to any serious harms to others, but into a bigger e-penis for the guy who does it and owns the hacked account. We have seen people using server code based exploits before, and the open source certainly wouldn't make things easier to exploit.

Most hacks just mod the .exe or other files. Image that you wouldn't need a hack program to do that. You could just edit it yourself and convert new files. I stay at my point and still think hacking would become more common

De_Jappe wrote:

DeathUnlimited wrote:

Anfidurl wrote:

You put too little faith into the open source community. Go look at how secure Linux is, with all the eyes looking at the code for vulnerabilities. Many more eyes looking than at Redmond, for sure.

I am using Ubuntu right this second . The fact that linux's open source works, and gathers almost no viruses is because the computer using is so well restricted. Applications can't install themselves like in windows. Most of the important apps are downloaded straight from the secure servers. The application environment just is much better than in Windows.

Now the bf2 is different. People make viruses etc. to ruin things. In bf2 the code editing wouldn't lead to any serious harms to others, but into a bigger e-penis for the guy who does it and owns the hacked account. We have seen people using server code based exploits before, and the open source certainly wouldn't make things easier to exploit.

Most hacks just mod the .exe or other files. Image that you wouldn't need a hack program to do that. You could just edit it yourself and convert new files. I stay at my point and still think hacking would become more common

You just have to check if you still have both the same versions (easy with a hash for example). If you don't have the same versions, you can't play on the server. Same: for ranked games, you need a certain version for example.

int getHashValue(char[] filename) {
    int hashValue = // do something to get a hash value from that file
}

int getHashValue(char[] filename) {
    if(filename == "bf2.exe") {
        return 123456789;
    }
}

• It's less popular. Windows still has a market share that no other distributor comes close. So it's a much more interesting target for attacks - and automatic attackers, like worms, work much better with a highly populated system.
• It comes with better factory settings. Distributions like Ubuntu don't give administrative rights to the default user, instead you have to call sudo if some software needs administrative rights. You have to add a new user on windows to archieve this (but you can, it's even quite easy).
• The users are more advanced. This might be the biggest plus. The average Linux user has a much better technical knowledge than the average windows user. They understand why it's important to keep software up-to-date, how vulnerbilities work and they don't open email attachments with names like "britney-spears-cumshot.jpg.exe".