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I'm not making an accusation, it's kernel-level access. If I know where you live, have keys to your house, know your security code, can change anything in your home without you knowing, that's a problem.
Why are you so dead-set on defending a company's bad practices just because you like their game?
Yup, so you don't care. Lmao you literally gave away the key to your house for an uninteresting video game. Pitiful.
Some of us wouldn't proudly admit to doing nothing with their time, but here we are.
I've got important stuff on my personal machine, and it's the principal of the thing, besides. Good luck to you, I suppose.
Fuck you
I hope they use your PC as a botnet and steal your bank account some day when China has enough of us.
@kadu @RubberElectrons It seems you don't understand how independent opinions in a democracy are made. It's about privacy and the right for it. No company has the right to snuff in my life and collect private data. Everyone has secrets.
@kadu @RubberElectrons It doesn't have to be the company itself.
Imagine the unimaginable scenario where a group of hackers gains access to the company's network and servers and plants a malicious patch to be sent in the next update.
I wouldn't be afraid of the company exploiting this. I would be afraid that a bug or hacker can do whatever with my computer because I gave this software root access, and it gets remotely updated, has network access and can become an amazing tool in the wrong hands.
@kadu Duh, but leaving my front door open is really unnecessary.
I mean you do you. Thankfully I don't care :D
You're definitely not getting through to paranoid lemmy users lol
Then you should've stopped playing when you encountered the first cheater. The one that you knew was a cheater, at least.
Things like this create false sense of safety where you assume the game has less cheaters but in reality you can hardly tell.
Xbox should be plug an play. Everythig is open and viewable so you can see the malware if there is any.
Otherwise show me the driver to prove me wrong.