I haven't watched the film, because I simply never accuse anyone of hacking.. even if they are. Someone else will do it for me if they are hacking, right? I mean, if he's hacking more than I will see it, so I leave it up to the other person to say so. Just to explain why I won't get involved in this particular matter. What I DID want to throw my worthless copper coins in about was that you don't necessarily have to hack the game/software in order to avoid damage or anything to that effect. You can run a TSR program that you write using any code to detect what packets are coming in to your PC. If it's a packet that carries damage information, that TSR program can throw that packet out(just like a blackhole). HTC could throw code in there to check what's loaded into memory, but who's to say that roger wilco isn't a TSR program designed to delete unwanted packets? There's many ways to ensure that a TSR isn't run, but then again, there are a few ways that you simply can't do(case in point checking to see what's loaded into memory). You can make it so it's impossible to alt-tab back to desktop to run, say, Winamp and play your MP3s while you are flying, or log onto Roger Wilco while you are in the air(unless HTC incorporates a jukebox.. RW is already OTW, then they could probably disabled alt-tab/alt-esc). Either way, HTC's code is pretty well secured as far as encryption goes(note; NOT unhackable by any means, but really well done), but there are external programs you can run designed to do such a thing as refusing damage/hit packets.
Just wanted to drop this lil' tidbit off.
(looks at ground and sees he added more fuel to the fire.. oops!) But you all needed to know that information anyway...
-SW
