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Re:Are We Anti-Cheat Yet? by ale42 on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @03:37AM (#41376958)
Malware will be the first software using that option.
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Re:Are We Anti-Cheat Yet? by hexomancer on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @03:39AM (#41376973)
That's why I said the user has to explicitly accept that.
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Re:Are We Anti-Cheat Yet? by HexDecOctBin on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @03:40AM (#41376988)
Who do you think downloads and runs malware? Users.
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Re:Are We Anti-Cheat Yet? by hexomancer on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @03:52AM (#41377078)
By the same argument we should prevents the users from running any program at all because it might be malware.
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Re:Are We Anti-Cheat Yet? by Am4TIfIsER0ppos on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @05:26AM (#41377661)
That is indeed what many people want! Look at people defending "app stores" as being for the users' own good, and sometimes everyone else's.
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Re:Are We Anti-Cheat Yet? by HexDecOctBin on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @10:17AM (#41379806)
No, but we shouldn't treat user's freedom as an anti-virus mechanism. Pretending that user acceptance will help in preventing malwares is extremely naive.
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