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Rockstar Games DDoSed Heavily By Players Protesting New AntiCheat Code (cyberinsider.com)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca
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[–] 64 points 2 years ago (1 child)

I’m on the side of the attackers on this one. BattleEye is trash.

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    How long until a botnet exploits one of these root kits and puts millions of high-end GPUs to work for whatever. Or a troll just fries everyone's hardware for the lawls.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Or they push a bug by accident that gets the machine into a bootloop? On the bright side hospital and airline computers don't have GTA installed on them so the impact would be reduced to personal computers.

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    • [–] 28 points 2 years ago

    Good shit. Privacy and Security cannot be a casualty of cheat prevention.

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