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Enkers@sh.itjust.works 1 week agoI mean, there’s always been speculation that Vanguard is spyware. There’s absolutely no need or justification for always-on cheat detection.
zewm@lemmy.world 1 week ago
What speculation? It’s literally spyware. You are giving it full low level access to your processor.
Enkers@sh.itjust.works 1 week 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.