Of all of the topics to ponder in the world of multiplayer games, the one with perhaps the most grey area is the subject of exploits. In MMO’s specifically, some exploits and bugs are left unpatched for years, allowing enterprising players a simpler path to victory than intended. Other exploits, however, result in account suspensions and outright bans.

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The question of “are exploits wrong?” has been explored at length by more qualified gamers than myself, and the answer that we always seem to land on is “it depends”. In fact, it depends on several things. Does using the exploit give the gamer an unfair advantage in a PvP situation? Does using the exploit wreak havoc on game systems (such as the economy)? Does using the exploit degrade or disrupt the experience of other players in the game? Even the answers to these questions are seldom black and white. After all, a player might contend that my constant kiting or jumping during combat is ruining his/her immersion, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that I’m doing anything wrong. Likewise, is gaining high-level gear more quickly than intended truly putting a player at an advantage if they haven’t also gained the PvP experience that goes along with obtaining said gear?

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Exploits have been around as long as video games. In the days of the NES, I remember a specific offensive play in the game John Elway Football that when called, blessed the tailback with about 10x the speed of any other player on the screen, virtually guaranteeing a touchdown. Super Mario Brothers hid world warps behind secret walls. And of course everybody who played NES remembers the secret “controller codes” that unlocked various in-game goodies (left, right, left, right, A, B, up, down…). Calling on these exploits only robbed the player using the exploit of whatever experience he/she was choosing to opt out of, such as the challenge of beating the game with the designed number of lives. Exploits in these cases were never considered “wrong” because nobody else was affected. The grey area is introduced when other players are factored into the equation.

In MMO’s today, the term “exploit” is often used interchangeably by game studios with cheating. Blizzard, distributor of the MMO behemoth World of Warcraft, states in its exploitation policy: “Accounts participating in exploitative behavior are suspended or closed based on the severity of the offense.” Notice it doesn’t say “may be suspended or closed”. The policy itself seems to insinuate that the use of exploits within Blizzard games is always wrong.

Arenanet also takes a hardline stance for its MMO Guild Wars 2 within the rules of conduct: “You will not exploit any bug in Guild Wars 2 and you will not communicate the existence of any such exploitable bug (bugs that grant the user unnatural or unintended benefits) either directly or through public posting, to any other user of Guild Wars 2.” Note that the policy does not make a distinction between intended and unintended exploits, nor does it give leniency based on the number of times an offense was committed. By the letter of the law, a player who accidentally triggers an exploit once is just as guilty as one who purposefully and repeatedly takes advantage of one. Of course, a studio won’t make very much money if it decides to ban every accidental exploit, so hopefully in most cases common sense prevails, but the point is that any exploit is generally considered cheating by online game studios.

Which is the right approach? The good old days, when we searched for secret doors and cheat codes and were rewarded accordingly, or the present, where policy dictates that any such ingenuity be met with swift and decisive consequences for the good of the game?

It depends.

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A tool developed by hackers that is used to perform malicious attacks on computer systems. They are usually scripts that are designed to exploit weaknesses in software over a network, most commonly the Internet. Zero-Day is a common type of exploit.

Zero-Day Exploits

Called either Day Zero or Zero-Day, it is an exploit that takes advantage of a security vulnerability on the same day that the vulnerability becomes publicly or generally known. Zero-Day exploits are usually posted by well-known hacker groups. Software companies may issue a security bulletin or advisory when the exploit becomes known, but companies may not be able to offer a patch to fix the vulnerability for some time after.

An exploit (from the same word in the French language, meaning “achievement”, or “accomplishment”) is a piece of software, a chunk of data, or sequence of commands that takes advantage of a bug, glitch or vulnerability in order to cause unintended or unanticipated behavior to occur on computer software, hardware, or something electronic (usually computerised). This frequently includes such things as gaining control of a computer system or allowing privilege escalation or a denial of service attack.

There are several methods of classifying exploits. The most common is by how the exploit contacts the vulnerable software. A ‘remote exploit’ works over a network and exploits the security vulnerability without any prior access to the vulnerable system. A ‘local exploit’ requires prior access to the vulnerable system and usually increases the privileges of the person running the exploit past those granted by the system administrator. Exploits against client applications also exist, usually consisting of modified servers that send an exploit if accessed with client application. Exploits against client applications may also require some interaction with the user and thus may be used in combination with social engineering method. This is the hacker way of getting into computers and websites for stealing data.

In computing, an exploit is an attack on a computer system, especially one that takes advantage of a particular vulnerability that the system offers to intruders. Used as a verb, the term refers to the act of successfully making such an attack.

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In Exploit another classification is by the action against vulnerable system: unauthorised data access, arbitrary code execution, denial of service.

Many crackers (or hackers, if you prefer that term) take pride in keeping tabs of such exploits and post their exploits (and discovered vulnerabilities) on a Web site to share with others.

Where an exploit takes advantage of a weakness in an operating system or vendor application program, the owners of the system or application issue a “fix” or patch in response. Users of the system or application are responsible for obtaining the patch, which can usually be downloaded from the Web. Failure to install a patch for a given problem exposes the user to a security breach. (However, it can be difficult to keep up with all the required patches.)

Many exploits are designed to provide superuser-level access to a computer system. However, it is also possible to use several exploits, first to gain low-level access, then to escalate privileges repeatedly until one reaches root.

Normally a single exploit can only take advantage of a specific software vulnerability. Often, when an exploit is published, the vulnerability is fixed through a patch and the exploit becomes obsolete for newer versions of the software. This is the reason why some blackhat hackers do not publish their exploits but keep them private to themselves or other crackers. Such exploits are referred to as ‘zero-day exploits’ and to obtain access to such exploits is the primary desire of unskilled attackers, often nicknamed script kiddies.

Script Kiddie

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A person, normally someone who is not technologically sophisticated, who randomly seeks out a specific weakness over the Internet in order to gain root access to a system without really understanding what it is s/he is exploiting because the weakness was discovered by someone else. A script kiddie is not looking to target specific information or a specific company but rather uses knowledge of a vulnerability to scan the entire Internet for a victim that possesses that vulnerability.

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The vast majority of the “hacker” underground is made up of people who have only been using computers for a few years and who really know comparatively little about them. These are people, usually kids, who are attracted by the seemingly magical powers that hacking gives them. Since they know so little about computers, they don’t really known how to hack themselves but instead follow recipes or “scripts” developed by real hackers. Most of these scripts are easy-to-use programs whereby the “script-kiddy” simply enters the IP address of the victim.

One of the distinguishing features of script-kiddies is that they must have a lot of patience. Because security holes are quickly found and repaired, most systems will resist most attacks. Therefore, if the script-kiddy is targeting a single system, they have to find a lot of scripts to try against the system before they find one that works. More commonly, the script-kiddies downloads one of the most recently developed scripts and proceeds to run it against targets all throughout the Internet until they find someone who is vulnerable to that specific script.

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