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Re:Guild Wars 2 distributed spyware in order to detect cheaters by Jazgot on Monday April 16, 2018 @01:59PM (#16851177)
It's very hard to call this spyware.
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Re:Guild Wars 2 distributed spyware in order to detect cheaters by larkeith on Monday April 16, 2018 @02:15PM (#16851346)
It's transmitting a trivially-decoded schedule of what processes you have running when, without your consent - in what universe is this not spyware?
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Re:Guild Wars 2 distributed spyware in order to detect cheaters by Groxx on Monday April 16, 2018 @02:31PM (#16851488)
(sarcastic, but not completely) when you paid for it.
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Re:Guild Wars 2 distributed spyware in order to detect cheaters by monetus on Monday April 16, 2018 @02:22PM (#16851416)
well, when its the 'good guys' doing it...
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