Hasnain says:

“The best part was that no one knew how we were able to do this and our admin team kept the implementation a top secret. We should have filed a patent! If cheaters learned how we were able to fingerprint them in this way, it would have been trivial for them to delete the cookies file on disk while ban evading. I am happy to report that the solution worked as expected from deployment date until October 2017 when Valve removed the VGUI browser entirely as part of their efforts to secure the game. It was only after this that I revealed the technique publicly and open-sourced the plugin.

Many years later, I remain really proud of this solution and how well it worked.”

Posted on 2024-10-17T07:37:24+0000