I just came along this site, that nicely summarizes the recent happenings. There's also a reply from Tony Ray, that I have not yet seen anywhere else. Nice read.
Talking about deceiving:
"Next, PunkBuster™ does have some heuristic capabilities. It has for years and it is constantly under development and improvement. We are hampered by constraints that do not affect Anti-Virus companies so there are some types of heuristics that are too unreliable for our system."
But what did the lead engineer say about heuristic end of January?
"PunkBuster makes no determinations heuristically. A heuristic approach is simply too unreliable to use in a large-scale system like PunkBuster. For heuristic approaches, cheater punks simply tune down their cheat programs so that they fall under the heuristic algorithm, but they are still cheating. Also, heuristic approaches have a good chance of falsely accusing a player that is just really good on a particular map or a particular game. This is the major reason that we don't use any sort of heuristics in our anti-cheat approach."
and panse`s quote is too lol to be true
"Next, PunkBuster™ does have some heuristic capabilities. It has for years and it is constantly under development and improvement. We are hampered by constraints that do not affect Anti-Virus companies so there are some types of heuristics that are too unreliable for our system."
But what did the lead engineer say about heuristic end of January?
"PunkBuster makes no determinations heuristically. A heuristic approach is simply too unreliable to use in a large-scale system like PunkBuster. For heuristic approaches, cheater punks simply tune down their cheat programs so that they fall under the heuristic algorithm, but they are still cheating. Also, heuristic approaches have a good chance of falsely accusing a player that is just really good on a particular map or a particular game. This is the major reason that we don't use any sort of heuristics in our anti-cheat approach."
How do you spell LIAR again?
Or is it some kind of 'passion' or 'hobby'??