Re: Can You Write a Sure-fire Algorithm to Stop Bots?
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grader,
I haven't studied the subject in depth, but am aware of how big an issue screen scraping is as far as the internet and websites go, and that it seems to be nearly as intractable as the problem of spam. Yet there are many problems that seem intractable at one time that later get solved. Perhaps this won't be though.
Would you know if there is a way to stop screen scraping via a poker client directly interfering with the OS so as to prevent other non-necessary programs from reading the memory addresses of the screen? Or to embed something in the graphics displayed on the screen so as to fool a scraper into getting the wrong coordinates? Just tossing n00bish ideas out there.
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It just isn't possible. If you can screen scrape, you can have a bot. And there is no way to prevent screen scraping, at least in windows.
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