UK cyber hacking at an end?

Picture the scene: you've just had a few days away from your console and your thumbs are itching to provide some online carnage.

You've got all your snacks for the between-game breaks all within arms reach. Your seat- a gaming throne- is comfortably puffed up with the nearby phone unplugged (who wants that annoying buzz-buzz-ring-ring whilst your on a killing spree?).

You switch on your console of choice and log into your account. The TV's turned up to that perfect deep, bassey level and you're seated comfortably. 

You're in your zone, dominating all of your opponents left right and centre when all the sudden your game freezes and you get that dreaded black screen. "Lag," you think to yourself. "It's bound to pass in a few minutes time."


It doesn't. After five minutes your screen abruptly lights back up into normality and... you've lost. Badly.

How is this possible you find yourself thinking. The Cyber Face will tell you how this is possible- hackers.



Inconsiderate, more often than not, pubescent gamers that can't be bothered to level up in the traditional fashion. They use malicious, home-grown programmes to delay the online game lobbies that they enter- but that's only for the other players, not themselves. 



This leaves them free to roam through the game and boosting their level, at the detriment to all the other players.




There are many differnt kinds of mods on the market theses days,
some less harmful than others

 Sadly, problems like this are all too common in the online gaming sphere. Such hackers, or mod-ers, have been around for a while now and most gamers just take it as part of the gaming culture. Something that you tolerate, not through choice, but through lack of alternative options.

HOWEVER this could be due to change very soon.

The UK arrested a teen living in Manchester yesterday for just such a crime. The unnamed youth was arrested after Call of Duty publishers, Activision, reported a server hacking in September.

FINALLY! 

The youth is suspected of using a programme called Phenom Booter which attacked the Activision site and supposedly affected thousands of gamers. It's malicious hacking like this that is a blight on the online community.



Although not all hacking is bad. Lets make it clear that The Cyber Face doesn't condone any form of hacking online, malicious or not. But some hacking can be genuinely amusing.

Some of the gamers mod games not just for their own pleasures, but for those of others also. You only need to look as far as The GMOD Idiot Box on YouTube to see examples of such modding.

CLICK HERE TO WATCH A SAMPLE EPISODE OF GMOD!



Indeed there have been examples of gamers showing their protests for certain online players, in particular games, by hacking their account and creating a horde of flying penises that bombarded the player's gaming screen.

Nevertheless, hacking still remains a problem. But perhaps this is the beginning of the end for it. This trial is most certainly one to watch!