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[โ€“] renegadespork@lemmy.blahaj.zone 28 points 1 month ago (1 children)

a list of hardcoded strings

Violating a core programming tenet right off the bat. I wonder how much money Activision payed for this software...

[โ€“] ramjambamalam@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 month ago

We and the hacker have no idea if this list is config driven or truly "hard coded" i.e. a const in the source code. It's hardly an indicator of violating a core programming tenet.