What is Filtering Enabled?

JonathanW123

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#228349618Saturday, December 02, 2017 10:33 PM GMT

nchittock

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#228349748Saturday, December 02, 2017 10:35 PM GMT

it pretty much stops hackers

hollowlucas

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#228349769Saturday, December 02, 2017 10:36 PM GMT

Filtering Enabled is a setting under workspace which disables Clients from editing the Server. Before Filtering Enabled, hackers could easily hack servers by simply running a script on their client. Now, these scripts, called Local Scripts, can only edit their client.

Divitiae

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#228350481Saturday, December 02, 2017 10:49 PM GMT

^ But you can still fire remote events using an exploit, which will replicate.

128Gigabytes

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#228351699Saturday, December 02, 2017 11:16 PM GMT

which is why on top of using filtering enabled, you need to make smart choices about what you trust the client with the best and easiest option? Trust the client as little as possible. 2 examples; making a shop? Don't have the client check the price of the item and send a buy request, instead have the client send a buy request and have the server check the prices and the clients currency making a weapon like a gun? don't have the client keep track of if its finished reloading, have the client request a shot and have the server check if its too soon since the last shot.

Aliics

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#228351827Saturday, December 02, 2017 11:19 PM GMT

Basically as 1/8Terabyte says, have the server handle the important logic so it cannot be manipulated on the client's end before it's sent to the server. :)