why does the source code for CSGO and TF2 being leaked mean that servers may be unsafe to play on? Like, what does the source code allow people to do that they couldn’t do before?
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Looking at the source code makes it much faster to understand exactly how the program works. This includes bugs in both the client **and** the server that can allow for arbitrary code execution and thus malware.
Now that it’s many times easier to understand the code for them, people can find a bug that sends bad data to a server and take it over. Then they can find a bug in the client that lets a taken-over server send bad data to the client and run malware on the player’s computer.
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