Simcity - Launching the Launcher

Preamble When I first started looking at the Simcity 2013 traffic, I had hoped I could peak at all of the server communication they do. Sadly (for me), the team at Maxis was fairly smart when it came to securing their encrypted traffic and they were able to thwart my initial attempts to man-in-the-middle (MITM) the connection between the Simcity client and their servers. I plan on attempt that some more in the future, but for now I’m going to look at the traffic from a higher level....

April 1, 2013 · 4 min