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Adrian the Video Game Hacker and GDC 2023

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The Most Common Exploit Class of the 20th Century

The most common exploit class was data race conditions where things were being checked and acted upon in a sequential manner. You could sell two of a single item very quickly and you get profits from two items for selling one item. Then there's just crazy logic bugs. There was another game that accidentally, and this is a huge game company that had a really huge game,. probably the biggest MMO that existed back then.

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