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TRACK B·PRODUCTION ENGINEERING·Verified June 2026 · Lua 5.4 · ox_lib 3.x
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Anti-cheat patterns

No client-side check is real security. Every "give me money" event a cheater finds is one your server should have rejected. This lesson covers the four patterns that stop most attacks: server authority, rate limiting, sanity checks, and audit logging. The key idea is one sentence long. The server trusts who sent an event, but never what they sent.

You'll learn
Server-authoritative events, rate limit per source, sanity checks, audit logs to Discord
Time
~22 minutes
Prereqs
Server vs client, databases, and webhooks
Outcome
A reward-request demo rejects rapid repeats and logs the rejection without trusting a client-supplied amount

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