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l o l Fine, they'll gladly eat shit

• vkou 2y ago
  How much shit, and how does it compare to the risk profile of, say, not wearing a five points seat belt and motorcycling helmet while driving, or a bulletproof vest when going to school, or an N95 mask literally everywhere? Security theorists are always ready to tell us about the horrifying risks of installing kernel-level code from a vendor, but can they actually quantify the likelihood times damage those billions of installations have inflicted on Joe Random's life? And contrast them to other risks that we regularly take in the name of comfort and convenience?
  • bravetraveler 2y ago
    I'm not really that interested in chasing this, but a point I do want to make: it isn't just risk. If you want to participate in a lot of these multiplayer games that place cheating far too highly, you can't use a hypervisor. You must have gaming device and computing device. They cannot be the same. That's fine for most, but I consider it shit. VFIO makes it possible for a big computer to make a smaller gaming one. Ask me how I know. My greater point is I don't care if I get cheated out of a finals match. I can actually speak from experience. I prefer autonomy over my devices. I kind of want to eat poop with them. A little.
  • kelnos 2y ago
    Funny that you initially used "Joe Ransom" as your example name (before your edit), as that describes one of the possible situations our friend Joe can end up in: malware that encrypts all his data and asks for a ransom to get it back.
    • vkou 2y ago
      Its possible. Roughly how likely is that to happen to him from installing a game with EAC? Are there a lot of documented cases of this? Is it more or less likely than them dying from the 'Rona because they didn't wear an N95 24/7?