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# 2020/08/04

- Goal: Demonstrate below to the game studio

- Develop our own game
    - 1-2 days
    - Should be really simple
    - Open Source is kinda bad because they are often complicated
    - Focus on game engines (Unity, Unreal Engine)
        - We show the game developers that we are ready to protect almost any game. 
- Prototype cheats: 
    - Internal 
    - External
    - Show how easy and destructive it is to cheat in the games. 
        - As simple as possible. 
        - No Discord Overlay and advanced stuff
    - Invest as little effort as possible
- Prototype AC Implementation: 
    - Extremly basic
    - SDK: Object-oriented bindings for C#, C++, ...
    - Encryption: Only for showoff, does not matter
    - Basic network architecture

    - Internal
        - The only thing that we need to do is 'Signature Scanning'
    - Driver
        - <1k LOC
    - Dashboard
        - Statistics
            - N Users banned
            - N Cheats detected
        - Reports
            - Present any relevant data
            - (Un)ban people

- Finances/Company
    - Define base salary
    - Member of the month
    - Everyone is equal, no discrimination

- Community
    - Our own CTF
    - Codefuser: have a sort of private bounty where rather than the public report-cheat-for-money we offer money directly to trusted reverse engineers/cheaters to find bypasses, possibly higher amount etc but basically we contact them directly to get attention
    - We should actively be friendly with RE community
    - BE: Don't be cocky. They can't prove that they are the gold standard. 
    - EAC -> Really disconnected. Don't claim to be the best. 
    - Be humble and interact with the community. 
    
    - **Twitter**: Respond to criticism. 
    - **Unknowncheats**: Provide feedback to releases. 
    - **GuidedHacking**: same as above

- Other
    - Driver Signing: 
        - Only for production
        - We need to roll our own testing framework. 
    - CI/CD: Just use Github Actions

- Legal stuff: 
    - Check if your country has a contract by searching '`<country>` and Vietnam double taxation'
    - Everybody should take a lawyer to look over the NDA

- Meeting Recording: 
    - If you missed a meeting, look at the [Github repository](github.com/astrea/meetings)
    - No video recording: 
        - Inefficient to search stuff
        - Not everyone is comfortable with being recorded

