Originally Posted by
Kasi
Why do so many people make this mistake?
Detectable - "able to be discovered or identified."
Detected - "discover or identify the presence or existence of."
SMART is detectable. If you really want, i'll write you a 10? line program to detect if you're running SMART or not. We can't say for certain if it is detected, but it is 100% detectable.
Secondly, would you explain why their automatic system doesn't catch onto SMART but the manual check would? I don't understand the assumption behind why the automatic system wouldn't pick it up.
If you knew anything about Powerbot and Jagex, you'd know that they have a personal feud. IIRC, Jagex went after Paris both civilly and criminally. Two separate cases and essentially lost both IMO, (NDA in place i think, so there's not much info around). It was impossible for Jagex to prove that Powerbot modified the client as it was obfuscated and de-compiling it would be considered criminal. Pretty ironic loophole.
This is on-top of the Jacmob + Paris drama. I'll briefly clarify this too. Before this lawsuit, Jacmob and Paris used to work together on RSBot. Jacmob fell out with Paris for reasons i can only speculate - I don't know the full story. Paris wasn't interested in paying jacmob as the lead dev, Paris blamed the hacks at RSBot on jacmob and another member (Arbiter), (gho$t, the original hacker came out and claimed full responsibility eventually), Anyhow a bunch of devs at RSBot parted way (including Jacmob), and RSBuddy was born. You could say they were now direct competitors. RSBot v RSBuddy. RSBuddy was short lived. Jacmob hung up his botting career. Jagex employed him and for a 2 years as he worked on BotWatch, (who better to stop java bots than the ex lead dev at RSBot). Which incidentally was the time when Powerbot users were instant banned for logging in.
There really isn't a shortage of reasons why Jagex wouldn't wanna focus Powerbot. Most certainly doesn't mean they can't detect other bots. Powerbot was probably focused cause Jagex + Jacmob personally wanted to take a shit on Powerbot + Paris.