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VRChat is jam-packed with malicious users who use modded clients or run Wireshark to dox and harass people using their IP. Imagine an adult telling a little kid
by _mb2v 4y ago
VRChat is jam-packed with malicious users who use modded clients or run Wireshark to dox and harass people using their IP. Imagine an adult telling a little kid in VR, "I know where you live, it's in X city" and then social-engineering their way to even worse places. They did a big refactor a few years ago to remove all/most P2P networking due to the DDoS and harassment problems. The VRChat community is incredibly toxic.
- mlindner 4y agoWhat little kid is going to own multi-hundred dollar VR systems.
- kaibee 4y agoA Quest 2 is $300 and so so many kids have them.
- _mb2v 4y agoThe same kids whose parents bought them an XBox or PlayStation. The Quest 2 is cheaper than both at $300. It’s standalone so you don’t need a PC. There’s been a sea change in the VR player base since the first Quest came out: https://youtu.be/wbB807o-Fjs https://youtu.be/wbB807o-Fjs
- shultays 4y agoSame little kid that can have a computer, a tablet or a console. Or a house while at it. It is their parents that buy/own VR systems, salary of the kid does not matter.
- shultays 4y agoVRChat exposes user IPs? edit: another comment mentions "partial p2p" (I assume to share user models etc? maybe more) which sounds plausible
- sudosysgen 4y agoYou can still use Wireshark even with anti-cheat.