Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-35180316-20180409075909/@comment-28169398-20180426034706

From my perspective:

1) FM knows (should know) the code. EA is just an investor and probably a high level management team of MBA's that give FM financial targets but do not actually direct any of the development other than to approve licensing of new content and proposed budgets.

2) If you are hacking the game then you are interfering the way I play the game, so you lose the right to ask that question. I am willing to give Hulk the benefit of the doubt that he is white-hatting, or at least grey-hatting.

3) If it were me, I may be doubting myself at this point of getting no where with FM and am looking for some external validation from the game community that what I am doing is valued.

4) Maybe he has developed other, similar software, and has dealt with this in a professional capacity. If it is at a rival developer, it may be a risky proposition for him professionally for it to be found out that he is trying to help the competition.

5) I agree here, though do not approve of saying that his ends are twisted. If Hulk is truly white-hatting, then he should be using channels other than FM customer service to get the message to them about their vulnerabilities.

6) My guess is that in order to not have interminable lag, FM is unable to encrypt the car data as unpacking it on the fly would probably take too long. It may not be possible to prevent this on a mobile platform. They could possibly workout a hypothetical minimum lap time given a track/car/upgrade combo, and anytime under that would be immediately invalidated... However it likely wouldn't take long to figure out the time and to produce times that were milliseconds above the minimum. Even if they fix all of this, they still have not addressed the issue of intentional wrecking, pushing another racer off track and having the "victim" get the time penalty, etc.