Movie: How to spot a hacker

by **Nofx** » Fri Sep 02, 2005 9:11 pm

Well, these Ecgn forum boards seemed to be somewhat lacking lately (cmon, half the threads are 'happy birthday' ones), so I thought I'd post something somewhat interesting. I made a movie a few weeks ago, its entitled 'How to Spot a Hacker' and it shows various clips of people who I believe were wallhacking (for those who are unaware, it lets you see models through walls).

http://files.filefront.com/spotting_wallersavi/;4091296;;/fileinfo.html

75% of the footage is from ECGN, some from Shipswreck, some from Nd80's RR (which did run Punkbuster). I only picked clips to show the general flavor of what was going on and tried to exclude too many repeats (ie I'm not going to show ten clips of Cicatriz scoping out the wr from the ducts or Marlins staring thru walls). Some of the people in these clips were eventually banned, others somewhat admitted to it (The 'goofing around' excuse), and nothing happened to others. In all fairness, a few of these people were legit most times I've seen them (I think Verges/Turmoil was just using it that one time to have some fun with his clanmate, and Cicatriz looked fine to me from the demos I've seen on cached.net).
The first half is mostly 'circumstantial' evidence, where they do strange things, but its not conclusive. The second half shows some real BS that I just don't think is possible without a wallhack. Watch it for yourself and be the judge.

I guess in the end, it doesn't really matter because rtcw is on its last legs. Just thought it would be an interesting movie for people to watch, and I didn't want to make another frag highlight vid of myself

by **aphid** » Fri Sep 02, 2005 10:09 pm

Happy Birthday, Nofx! :beer:

by **Siren** » Fri Sep 02, 2005 11:39 pm

by **gowhitesox99** » Sat Sep 03, 2005 12:11 am

118mb..oh jeez cris...

by **Rand0m** » Sat Sep 03, 2005 2:43 am

nice one man. pretty old school. keek, spaceghost, hehe. really liked the verges one, and the cicatriz ducts part with space haha.

by **Namloot** » Sat Sep 03, 2005 5:05 am

Long live RtCW!

by **Namloot** » Sat Sep 03, 2005 5:18 am

Good job!

by **Slaughter2** » Sat Sep 03, 2005 12:52 pm

good vid nox!!!! nice man

by **Jono** » Sat Sep 03, 2005 2:00 pm

Great video...now maybe some ppl can spot the wallhackers and non-wallhackers!

by **Hash** » Sat Sep 03, 2005 2:12 pm

That file is too big, can't they make em short and to the point?

by **Nofx** » Sat Sep 03, 2005 2:33 pm

Thanks for the input guys. Yea, alot of oldschool clips, I had fun watching those old demos

If 118mb is too big for you, then plz don't download it. Takes me about 2 mins from Filefront to finish the dl, and 5 secs to delete it from my HD. If you look at the 3 most popular vids from Own-age (at 200,000+ dl's), you'll see that the avg size of a movie is about 300-400mb (more bells and whistles than my movie tho). My Warcraft vids are 200+mb (pretty standard size) and i've had over 2k dl's without a single complaint about filesize (if anything, people tell me to make em bigger to up the quality).

If you're on Dial-up, and 118 mb would take you an entire weekend to dl, or your comp is from 1995 and you have a 10gig HD, then plz don't dl it, its really not THAT interesting.

And finally, I think it'd be really cool to hear from Cicatriz. Maybe Hikikomori can get his old buddy to register here, or pass a msg? Maybe give some details about what he was using exactly, what he saw, can he do it on PB servers, etc. I doubt it'll happen, but I think it'd be very interesting.

by **Davis** » Sat Sep 03, 2005 3:55 pm

What was the music yourused.

1.40 into it, and the ending tune?

by **Rand0m** » Sat Sep 03, 2005 5:01 pm

Originally posted by Nofx
Thanks for the input guys. Yea, alot of oldschool clips, I had fun watching those old demos

If 118mb is too big for you, then plz don't download it. Takes me about 2 mins from Filefront to finish the dl, and 5 secs to delete it from my HD. If you look at the 3 most popular vids from Own-age (at 200,000+ dl's), you'll see that the avg size of a movie is about 300-400mb (more bells and whistles than my movie tho). My Warcraft vids are 200+mb (pretty standard size) and i've had over 2k dl's without a single complaint about filesize (if anything, people tell me to make em bigger to up the quality).

If you're on Dial-up, and 118 mb would take you an entire weekend to dl, or your comp is from 1995 and you have a 10gig HD, then plz don't dl it, its really not THAT interesting.

And finally, I think it'd be really cool to hear from Cicatriz. Maybe Hikikomori can get his old buddy to register here, or pass a msg? Maybe give some details about what he was using exactly, what he saw, can he do it on PB servers, etc. I doubt it'll happen, but I think it'd be very interesting.

I remember finding a wall hack on ecgn once. I think it was you who spotted him and told some of us to go spec and watch. Really interesting to see from the non-hack point of view, because its so obvious! :cool:

by **SavageParrot** » Sat Sep 03, 2005 5:56 pm

Doesn't work for me for some reason. I have enough demos of my own though.

Might want to post that vid on the fx forums though so they can learn how to not get busted so often

by **Nofx** » Sat Sep 03, 2005 10:47 pm

Originally posted by SavageParrot
Doesn't work for me for some reason. I have enough demos of my own though.

Gah, my apologies man...I am still a nub with this encoding stuff. I must be using a codec not eveyone has (XviD). I know nothing about it, I almost randomly picked it from a list of 20 different ways to encode. Thought it came out with ok quality (you can see whats going on), without being too huge (well, I guess 118 mb is too huge for some). I'll try a different codec next time.

And for the music....all the tracks are from an old playstation game called 'Wild Arms'. Its an old 2d rpg, one of the first rpg's on the Playstation console. Its not music I would normally listen to, but my intention was to have something soft so you could hear the sound effects, and maybe force you to turn up your volume slightly, because listening to the sound effects is important in some of the shots.

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