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		grimmfang on April 27, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Never trust the client Don't forget the incident where Punk Buster banned anyone with a certain string in memory...

sdwisely on April 28, 2016 [–]

I remember it unfortunately being timed around the same time an exploit string would cause one of the AV packages to drop connections.

Made gaming IRC channels utter chaos for weeks.

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