So they detect reads from an external process? What if, instead of an exploit app, an antivirus read the memory?
cheat detection and cheat development is an arms race. always was, always has been. By publishing, you just give an advantage to the cheaters.
Reading from that section was a necessary condition for this wave of bans, but they didn't say it was sufficient, and that they didn't do any additional checks.
Conflating a variety of possibilities and relying correlation doesn’t reduce to intent or prove causation.
OTOH: Don’t play computer games on company hardware unless it’s part of the job.
I don’t have skin in this computer game. To stay ahead of cheaters requires constant vigilance and creative solutions to scale detection.
Come on, how naive do you think they are? Antivirus doesn’t load player_pos[4] every 35ms.