LogInA tricky patch allowed the company to find those who don't want to play as intended.
Valve has cleaned up its Dota playerbase by banning over 40,000 cheaters. The wave removed accounts using third-party software to avoid fair play by implementing a tricky patch that detected them accessing certain files.
"This patch created a honeypot: a section of data inside the game client that would never be read during normal gameplay, but that could be read by these exploits. Each of the accounts banned today read from this "secret" area in the client, giving us extremely high confidence that every ban was well-deserved."
This move is just a fraction of the battle that is usually done behind the scenes, but Valve wanted to make this an example for every cheater: if you run any application that reads data from the Dota client as you're playing, your account can be permanently banned.
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