https://terriblesoftware.dev/tags/memory-scanning/ Recent content in Memory Scanning on Terrible Software Hugo en Thu, 29 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 https://terriblesoftware.dev/en/posts/what-actually-survives-a-memory-scanner/ Thu, 29 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 https://terriblesoftware.dev/en/posts/what-actually-survives-a-memory-scanner/ <h1 id="what-actually-survives-a-memory-scanner">What Actually Survives a Memory Scanner</h1> <p>Scott Davis · October 2026</p> <p><em>A follow-up to <a href="https://terriblesoftware.dev/en/posts/securing-game-data-in-the-agentic-age/">Securing Game Data in the Agentic Age</a>.</em></p> <h2 id="building-it-then-attacking-it">Building it, then attacking it</h2> <p>In the last post I argued that client-side protection only slows attackers down, and that &ldquo;AI is making the slowdown barely matter.&rdquo; I ended with a sketch of a small masked type that re-keys on every write and moves its storage around.</p> <p>I built it. I also built a memory scanner and pointed it at my own game.</p>