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SUMMARY:Boom! Headshot! - Mike Bond
DTSTART:20070601T150000Z
DTEND:20070601T153000Z
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CONTACT:Markus Kuhn
DESCRIPTION:This talk surveys the ways in which people currently cheat in 
 online first-person "twitch-based" computer games. It then discusses how t
 he tactics used by hardcore players (as satirised in the famous "Boom! Hea
 dshot!" youtube video) are often mistaken for cheating\, and argues that p
 reventing the perception of cheating is an equally interesting security-re
 lated challenge to preventing actual cheating.\n\nThe talk focuses specifi
 cally on the evolution of a special sort of winning tactic – the neo-tac
 tic – the use of which often appear cheating-like. This sort of tactic e
 xploits the underlying low-level physics properties of the virtual environ
 ment\, for example network latency effects.\n\nThe talk is a much more col
 ourful\, diagrammatic\, screenshot-rich (and hopefully more accessible) pr
 esentation of my paper with the same name.\n
LOCATION:Computer Laboratory\, William Gates Building\, Rainbow Room
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