Can hackclients "steal" mods from a server?

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Can hackclients "steal" mods from a server?

by AmyMoriyama » Post

So I got to thinking and I can't seem to find any information to answer my question and I don't know enough about c++ to make sense of the source code, I got to thinking about the possibility of a player "stealing" mods from a server.

Let's say a server creates a custom mod and doesn't release it so that their server has an edge. Is it even remotely possible for a player to connect to the server and effectively download the mod from the server, aka steal it?

I'm aware of an ability to download worlds from a server, but the player has to basically go everywhere they want to download and I'm not entirely sure how useful this would be.

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Re: Can hackclients "steal" mods from a server?

by rubenwardy » Post

No, clients are only sent media and the world. They are not sent server-side mod code
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