I also expect it's a bit of an arms race. (Destiny)

by dogcow , Hiding from Bob, in the vent core., Friday, April 15, 2016, 18:40 (3387 days ago) @ Funkmon

If you fix one type of networking exploit then the jerk will find another way to exploit the tcp/ip stack that may be harder to detect.

But so far I've only heard of the famed "lag switch" where they interrupt the upstream flow of data while still receiving the downstream flow. What I don't understand is why they can't "referee" this with the console being able to detect a steady stream of data without their upstream data being acked. I wonder, is destiny using udp? If so it must be making it's own guaranteed delivery of key information. Anyway, I'd love to know more about the technical aspects of how they do their networking. It'd be fascinating.