Re:Bye-bye Windows gaming? SteamOS officially expands past t...
by sadeshmukh on Wednesday January 08, 2025 @10:31PM
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You're elevating games to the level of security software. Isn't it an issue that a game is literally policing your entire system? If you had any passwords, or literally anything else, they can take it. This is about as far as a "trade off" can go.
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Re:Bye-bye Windows gaming? SteamOS officially expands past t...
by matheusmoreira on Thursday January 09, 2025 @04:53AM
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> If you had any passwords, or literally anything else, they can take it.
They have done it before.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/fs-labs-flight-simulator-pas...
Shipped a browser stealer to users and exfiltrated data on an unencrypted channel.
https://old.reddit.com/r/Asmongold/comments/1cibw9r/valorant...
https://www.unknowncheats.me/forum/anti-cheat-bypass/634974-...
Screenshots your computer screen and exfiltrates the picture to their servers.
Trusting these game companies is a huge mistake.
Re:Bye-bye Windows gaming? SteamOS officially expands past t...
by wqaatwt on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @02:19PM
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> elevating
And I shouldn’t have the right to do that because?
I don’t really play any competitive online games but I’d certainly rather install anti-cheat software than garbage like Crowdstrike if I was forced to choose. Anyway different people have different preferences, it’s their business.