Vanguard takes screenshots of your PC every time you play a game. Every time you play a game a function is called to screenshot your PC’s screen, in case Vanguard thinks you might have something suspicious, it screenshots your ENTIRE PC screen (all monitors).
Anti cheat software. In other words a fucking virus.
LostWon@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
There should be laws against this everywhere (with other forms of data collection included). There’s no way preventing cheating is more important than the fundamental rights to security and privacy.
SupraMario@lemmy.world 6 months ago
There is, this could have the potential to collect PII and its %100 they’re not storing this as encrypted data on their side. So it is %100 illegal to do, now if they’re fined for it is a different story.
exscape@kbin.social 6 months ago
Even if encrypted this doesn't sound like something compatible with the GDPR.
Serinus@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Which is why I’m almost certain it’s not happening. So far the only source is a cheat forum. I wonder what their motivation is.
Even in corporate dystopia where they monitor you every 15 seconds screenshots are frowned upon. You never know what kind of sensitive data that can reveal.
There’s no way Riot is doing it. The backlash would be immense, and they absolutely know it.
This agitprop stems from the makers of cheat software who are mad that the risk of using their hacks will go through the roof. Sure, you can still get around it. But now if you screw up it’s a hardware ban.
They’re gonna lose a lot of accounts that they sell at $10/pop.
I wouldn’t mind talking more about security, but I’ll save that for another comment.
TheKMAP@lemmynsfw.com 6 months ago
I’ll take that bet. Even a standard S3 bucket is “encrypted”.
kyle@lemm.ee 6 months ago
The screenshots are awful, but your statement is pure speculation, and likely just wrong. It’s pretty easy to encrypt images.
Ashtefere@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Just last year I was at a security conf and they said the biggest threat to security right now is anticheat software, especially that owned by state actors. The venn diagram for people with anti cheat installed and people with admin priveliges and SSH keys for work installed is almost a circle.