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alessandro@lemmy.ca to PC Gaming@lemmy.ca · 6 months ago

'I had my fun' says hacker who used Call of Duty anti-cheat exploit to ban 'thousands upon thousands' of innocent players

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'I had my fun' says hacker who used Call of Duty anti-cheat exploit to ban 'thousands upon thousands' of innocent players

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alessandro@lemmy.ca to PC Gaming@lemmy.ca · 6 months ago
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Catching strays.
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    Source?

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      Their source comes from it giving system access and that is what they want.

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        Why would they want that? Are there any cases of it being abused?

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          Yeah why would any mega conglomerate corporate entity want the most valuable and easy to harvest resource on earth

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            Computer usage statistics? Score!

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              Of course, no unfathomably demonic corporate entity would ever choose to track users and target them like that, to for instance sell products with zero repressions due to a lobbying hate group bribing lawyers to make it legal

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                Would be completely illegal in countries with gdpr. I’m a programmer and can tell you every company takes that super seriously.

                You have to agree to be tracked. Most people just do it without thinking.

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      It has system access yet doesn’t prevent cheating.

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        Nothing is perfect bruh.

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