Comment on Microsoft is moving antivirus providers out of the Windows kernel. Hopefully anti-cheat will be next

• derin@lemmy.beru.co ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  So by that logic we shouldn’t be downloading any precompiled binaries from the net - they could all be spying on us!

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  • anzo@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    a binary and a kernel module are not the same. And I was talking about business practices that are known. But nevermind, that was before I understood you are just trolling. Now I wish a wonderful reddit experience.

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    • derin@lemmy.beru.co ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Not trolling at all. I’m a game developer, so I was curious to hear about instances of game devs using kernel level anticheat to harvest people’s personal (and identifiable) data to sell to data brokers.

      Glad to know there aren’t any examples of it outside of people screaming about capitalism - which is, let’s be honest, quite indicative of the Lemmy experience these days.

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      • anzo@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        As for actual kernel anticheat software siphoning out data, again, it’s something that we should not immediatly dismiss… The lack of evidence is not entirely on either side of this sudden ‘you vs. me’

        Acxiom does sell a package of “Gaming” data. Probably coming from mobile phones for the most part, since that’s where most Studios are more aggressive (even towards children, see Tilting Point Media LLC settlement last year)

        Again, knowing which Studios are selling data (identifiable or not) is impossible of no Court interferes.

        I was only trying to make the point that it is feasible… That’s why I referred you to recall that “capitalism bad yadda yadda…”

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