Comment on US adds web and gaming giant Tencent to list of Chinese military companies

WaterSword@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I mean it installs a rootkit on your computer that gives them full control over everything including what you type, hear, and see as well as the ability to record what you’ve previously typed and said. It could at any moment also fully disable your computer (as well as millions of other computers) rendering them useless.

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• Wooki@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Weapon of mass-debation

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• Enkers@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I mean, there’s always been speculation that Vanguard is spyware. There’s absolutely no need or justification for always-on cheat detection.

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  • zewm@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    What speculation? It’s literally spyware. You are giving it full low level access to your processor.

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    • Enkers@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Don’t get me wrong, Vanguard is BS, and I quit playing riot games because of it. However, that in itself isn’t sufficient to classify it as spyware. I still haven’t seen any evidence that it currently does anything nefarious with that access.

      To me, there are 2 problems: 1) It could be used for targeted attacks, and the likelihood anyone would find out is much lower than in a widespread surveillance scenario. 2) It could be used to deploy a massive bot-net.

      I think the US reclassification here is precautionary in nature.

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• RagnarokOnline@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Chemical weapon, maybe.

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• CaptKoala@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  A weapon against sanity, yes.

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• Gloria@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Weapon of Mass Distraction.

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  • WaterSword@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Psychological Warfare for sure

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