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"Why would game developers care about memory safety, performance > everything" At least this remote-code-execution was essentially "harmless" as these things g
by dralley 3y ago
"Why would game developers care about memory safety, performance > everything"
At least this remote-code-execution was essentially "harmless" as these things go. Who knows if the next one will be, or even if this has happened with malicious intent before - without attracting so much attention.
- jsheard 3y agoSomething similar happened with Dark Souls a while ago, someone found a client-to-client RCE in the P2P netcode and wasn't able to get the developers attention, so they launched a benign "attack" on some streamers which just played messages through text-to-speech on their machines. That resulted in enough noise that the developers had to address it. It's honestly a miracle that these sorts of exploits in games haven't been used maliciously on any large scale.