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Re:Team Fortress 2 source code has leaked by gbrown on Wednesday April 22, 2020 @05:33PM (#22950435)
Security by obscurity... isn't.
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Re:Team Fortress 2 source code has leaked by exabrial on Wednesday April 22, 2020 @09:31PM (#22951963)
agree... but it's just a video game :/
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Re:Team Fortress 2 source code has leaked by Insanity on Thursday April 23, 2020 @05:36AM (#22954244)
A video game that had millions of users
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Re:Team Fortress 2 source code has leaked by gbrown on Wednesday April 22, 2020 @10:50PM (#22952400)
and that changes things how?
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Re:Team Fortress 2 source code has leaked by xwdv on Wednesday April 22, 2020 @10:35PM (#22952329)
Just a video game? Imagine someone plays this game inside a corporate network, gets compromised, and the data for millions of people is stolen and leaked into the wild.

The function of the actual program that gets exploited is irrelevant to security risk.

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Re:Team Fortress 2 source code has leaked by exabrial on Thursday April 23, 2020 @09:40AM (#22955845)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man

I was referring to the relative importance in context of the parent comment. No need to conflate my words.

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