Re:Ring 0 of fire: Does Riot Games’ new anti-cheat measure g...
by dannyw on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @04:28AM
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It’s important to know that Riot Games is 100% owned by Tencent, making it a Chinese company.
This doesn’t even mean a grand conspiracy is required. They have an office in Shanghai, so it’s trivial for the CCP to persuade a couple employees and leverage this as a kernel level backdoor into hundreds of millions of western PCs.
If you think this is unfounded speculation, remember US intelligence was accusing Karspersky with distributing malware for Russian state backed cyber operations just a number of years ago...
Or the recent BGP hijackings on US ranges that are transparently obvious by China Telecom.
This doesn’t even mean a grand conspiracy is required. They have an office in Shanghai, so it’s trivial for the CCP to persuade a couple employees and leverage this as a kernel level backdoor into hundreds of millions of western PCs.
If you think this is unfounded speculation, remember US intelligence was accusing Karspersky with distributing malware for Russian state backed cyber operations just a number of years ago...
Or the recent BGP hijackings on US ranges that are transparently obvious by China Telecom.