Thunks from hacking games

The document reflects on security lessons from Greg Hoglund and Gary McGraw’s *Exploiting Online Games*, drawing parallels to traditional web and financial systems by highlighting TTPs such as logic abuse (“hacking inside the game”), collaboration/cheating, bot detection and CAPTCHA evasion, DoS in auctions, failures at system edges (SSO and cross-server state), race conditions between processes and technology (e.g., account creation vs. billing), and risks of client-side state; it underscores the need for deep domain understanding and structured threat modeling to anticipate attacker objectives and avoid fragile design choices.