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Re:Ubisoft "Uplay" DRM exposed as rootkit by ewillbefull on Monday July 30, 2012 @05:28AM (#4311528)
What makes you believe they put it there on purpose? It appears to have a genuine (if insecure) purpose. Even the researcher's message on seclists implies he thought of it as a bug.
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Re:Ubisoft "Uplay" DRM exposed as rootkit by alexanderpas on Monday July 30, 2012 @07:00AM (#4311781)
it's completely unneeded.

I can launch Steam games from my browser without any plugins.

https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Steam_browser_proto...

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Re:Ubisoft "Uplay" DRM exposed as rootkit by DavidPP on Monday July 30, 2012 @07:37AM (#4311870)
Well those games are not only sold through Steam you know so they still "needed" this feature to work without Steam.
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Re:Ubisoft "Uplay" DRM exposed as rootkit by cgbystrom on Monday July 30, 2012 @10:20AM (#4312413)
Protocol handlers are a pretty shitty way of interfacing with desktop apps. There's no two-way communication and no error handling. Lots of potential screw-ups and incompatibility issues will/can happen. Sure, they don't require a browser plugin but that's about the only advantage.
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