Comment on US adds web and gaming giant Tencent to list of Chinese military companies
zewm@lemmy.world 1 week agoWhat speculation? It’s literally spyware. You are giving it full low level access to your processor.
Comment on US adds web and gaming giant Tencent to list of Chinese military companies
zewm@lemmy.world 1 week agoWhat 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.