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Exfiltrating what websites you've accessed. That's basically what a spyware does. What in actual fuck.
by FRex 9y ago
Exfiltrating what websites you've accessed. That's basically what a spyware does. What in actual fuck.
- stordoff 9y agoI'm not exactly fine with it, but my understanding[0] is that it did a local check and only send the "bad" domains remotely. Still a privacy leak, but in a different class as bulk-uploading your entire DNS record. [0] Per https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/1y70ej/valve_vac_and_trust/ https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/1y70ej/valve_vac_an...
- FRex 9y agoAnd my understanding is that Gabe Newell who runs this circus just happens to have claimed so when the milk was already long split. If he is so concerned that Valve will be associated with spyware then he shouldn't have let VAC team create a literal piece of (definition fitting) spyware. Somehow the examples on VAC page say it looks for third party modifications to game files, not rummages through your entire machine. As if they knew it sounds sketchy to users. Even if they are working in good faith they might screw up during one of these raids against my machine (like they did with rm -rf on Linux in the uninstall script) and leak something or save it to some temporary file that something else might pick up. This is still very out of line. I buy games via a proprietary platform that doubles as a DRM while pirates have no DRM, open source torrent clients and verified cracker teams and I'm the one having privacy worries here?