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I'm not sure why this is being downvoted, as it's totally true. See the E-Sports Entertainment, LLC case: https://nj.gov/oag/newsreleases13/E-Sports_Complaint_
by 0942v8653 8y ago
I'm not sure why this is being downvoted, as it's totally true. See the E-Sports Entertainment, LLC case:
https://nj.gov/oag/newsreleases13/E-Sports_Complaint_Consent-Judgment.pdf https://nj.gov/oag/newsreleases13/E-Sports_Complaint_Consent...
Relevant quotes:
> Among
the
many
monitoring
activities
conducted
by
ESEA,
the
ESEA
Software
was
programmed
to
automatically
capture
screen
shots
of
computers,
track
computer
mouse
movements,
and
monitor
end-users'
computer
activities
even when
they
were
not
logged
onto
ESEA
servers.
> ESEA
did
not
place
any
restrictions
on
Hunczak
and
Thunberg's
ability
to
access
end-users'
computers.
> ESEA
did
not
put
policies
and
procedures
in
place
to
ensure
its
employees
were
not
abusing
their
full
administrative
access
privileges
or
inappropriately
accessing
end-users'
computer
files.
> From
at
least
April
12,2013
through
April
30,
2013,
the
ESEA
Botnet
used
the
GPU
of
end-users'
computers
to
mine
for
bitcoins
without
notice
to
and
authorization
from,
or
in
excess
of
authorization
from,
end-users.
(By "techniques commonly used by malware", I mean the data harvesting, screenshots, and remote access capabilities exploited by the defendants.)