> > > i heard that some guy who was working on a anti-cheat program for counter-strike after punkbuster surrendered also gave up and said that there's no way to prevent cheaters in games because of the fundamental design of Windows and dlls. many people claim Xbox is the only hope.

> > Unless they use secure p2p encryption, you could for example intercept all packets and create trainers for x-box.

> p2p is very vunerable because people are going to start chopping up xboxes and the keys are in there...

Chopping up?
Actually, p2p encrption (SSH2) is probably not sufficient either.

> > > This infuriates me. i don't want to play on non-upgradeable hardware that uses a TV for graphics.

> > Then connect a monitor.