had a little bit of a sniff around the thing
from what i can guess, when a player is VAC banned the server puts it in the console log, and therefore is sent to the stats.
IMO i hope some of the features of our stats our turned off, such as, sending our ENTIRE stats database to a master server in realtime for public "global" stats and a global list of vac bans ect..
i feel rather uninformed about where my data is being sent (dont forget the other 6000 odd people!), and what exacly its being used & saved for.
if i didnt have a look around to see how it vac bans i would have never known...
from what i can see, sending everything to a master server is somewhat pointless and open to exploit.
true, the data is not "sensative", and maybe that explains why they feel able to collect stats from the whole world and display them on a public site, open for bots to scan & save / people to harvest steam data
http://hlstatsx.com/rankings?filter=FROG&filter_type=Name