Quote Originally Posted by Alcyon_Densetsu View Post
I can't give a definitive comment on the technical side, however what I know is that this game was more hacked so far than any other MMORPG I've played in the last 10 years, including a few crappy F2P's made by small companies.
Well teleport is basically impossible to stop because the server views all player movement as teleportation. The other stuff seems to be serious exploits, but not actually hacking, and that also highlights the fact that most serious problems with security are exploits, not hacks. You'll hear far more issues that are equivalent of just someone logging in as admin/admin, as opposed to someone doing some crazy hax0r skills to somehow get past all your layers of security. I remember reading one of the hacks that lets you login as anybody in RIFT because they've some backdoor login protocol, and why would you even build a backdoor login protocol on the client in the first place? Why would anyone running a client version of any MMORPG even need the ability to log into anyone else's account without a password? Yet it's these dumb decisions that are usually the biggest security threats, not because your encryptation wasn't strong enough.