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@[email protected] to PC [email protected] • 8 months ago

'I had my fun' says hacker who used Call of Duty anti-cheat exploit to ban 'thousands upon thousands' of innocent players

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'I had my fun' says hacker who used Call of Duty anti-cheat exploit to ban 'thousands upon thousands' of innocent players

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@[email protected] to PC [email protected] • 8 months ago
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Catching strays.
  • @[email protected]
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    That kernel level anti-cheat is really working out well, eh?

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      51•8 months ago

      Kernel level isn’t about stopping cheaters, it’s about gaining system access

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        Naw, it’s about pretending to stop cheaters. It’s security theatre, same as the TSA

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        9•8 months ago

        To what end?

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          8 months ago

          Any mention of data collection in the ToS?

      • Sas [she/her]
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        6•8 months ago

        And about putting a buzzword on your game that makes people think they’re safe from cheaters

      • @[email protected]
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        5•8 months ago

        Source?

        • Something Burger 🍔
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          7•8 months ago

          It has system access yet doesn’t prevent cheating.

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            2•8 months ago

            Nothing is perfect bruh.

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          Their source comes from it giving system access and that is what they want.

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            Why would they want that? Are there any cases of it being abused?

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              Yeah why would any mega conglomerate corporate entity want the most valuable and easy to harvest resource on earth

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                Computer usage statistics? Score!

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                  Of course, no unfathomably demonic corporate entity would ever choose to track users and target them like that, to for instance sell products with zero repressions due to a lobbying hate group bribing lawyers to make it legal

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                    1•8 months ago

                    Would be completely illegal in countries with gdpr. I’m a programmer and can tell you every company takes that super seriously.

                    You have to agree to be tracked. Most people just do it without thinking.

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