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What stood out was the way the code identifies legitimate game packets: it checks for a specific "magic number," amusingly set to the string "food." If this magic number matches, the packet is considered valid; otherwise, it is discarded. This simple "signature" is a clever quick check but offers little security.
Packet Construction and Spoofing Potential
The researcher demonstrated how to reconstruct and analyze these network packets, even scripting in Python to mimic the game's packet structure. By leveraging the Scapy library, suspiciously simple in its approach, one can craft and send custom packets that appear genuine to the game’s network layer.