Re:Thank You, Valve
by maccard on Monday February 07, 2022 @09:08AM
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> A corporation could make my gaming rig into part of what amounts to a spyware botnet with me being none the wiser other than encrypted traffic coming OUT of my machine
For the average user they can do that with basic permissions anyway. I wouldn't notice a steady stream of 2-300 kbps of binary data uploading from my machine, for example. I'd chalk it down to shitty programming.
On any windows or Linux system, there is nothing stopping a binary from sniffing your clipboard, reading your .ssh directory, or just deleting your home folder/filling the files with garbage.
For the average user they can do that with basic permissions anyway. I wouldn't notice a steady stream of 2-300 kbps of binary data uploading from my machine, for example. I'd chalk it down to shitty programming.
On any windows or Linux system, there is nothing stopping a binary from sniffing your clipboard, reading your .ssh directory, or just deleting your home folder/filling the files with garbage.