Technology Review: Catching Cheaters with Their Own Computers

a) the cheaters will just use other hardware

b) someone will have a lot of fun cracking that...

but a good idea nevertheless

well if nothing else itll give AMD more market share

No, thanks i will rather stay in control of my own computer. This is also vendor-lock-in by definition. It could open the floodgates to worse stuff like in-build DRM?
On the other hand cheating as-in using the computer to control aspects of user control is just inevitable. Computers are simply better at stuff like aiming.

If you have paid money to play a game, it should be protected against cheaters. I am a counterstrike source player, and i think that it is appalling how commonplace hacks are in that game. What i find more disgusting is how easy it is for people to cheat, and how little valve can do about it. If i were them, i would be angry at how prevalent it is that people are manipulating their software.

@metaphor- Is this cheating all based on controlling the player, or based on violating game physics? Because the second should be defeatable simply by making the server dictate what happens, and the first can probably not be defeated indefinitely.
Trying to ban aimbots, then aimbots can simply not aim entirely perfectly, slightly unlike aimbots. But then aimbots could just get even worse, until the aimbots are in the range of the best human player, and that would mean human players banned. So aimbots can at least guarantee an aim of the best player.
One could try prevent radar(seeing people through walls, if anyone does not know), by only sending data about what a player sees. But how does one know exactly know what a player is able to see. It can probably be done roughly, but any better can get computationally expensive.

One can simply not distinguish what is being controlled by computer versus what is controlled by humans. Perhaps hardware will help, but i would not want that in my computer. It next step might be not allowing me to chose what apps i run at all, i do not want to promote any technology of that kind.
Perhaps the solution is a decent community, and for people that wish to, cheating and computer-controlled games.

you could probaly get around it just by running linux. and not adding the softwere, if thay actualy bother to make a linux version!

I have always found that the best way of avoiding the cheaters is to play on a well admin'ed server. A good clan will police it's own server.

the only reason there are so many CS:S hacks is that its had over a decade of hacks developed for it, as many CS1.6 hacks were simply ported, but Digitally Restricted Hardware is simply not the way to go, a game where the software is controlled server side goes some way to stop cheating, as many mmorpgs are.
there is no way to stop cheating in its entirity, its a part of games, whether its the footballer who puts in a dirty tackle while the ref isnt looking or that noob maphacker on a public server.