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(The Verge)   Google Engineer discovers Ubisoft game installations include a rootkit that allows Ubisoft full access to your computer   (theverge.com) divider line 6
    More: Asinine, Ubisoft, installations, Google, root kits, security hole, Hacker News, DRM, PMPs  
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2012-07-30 12:37:17 PM
2 votes:
Go ahead, Glorious PC Gaming Master Race... tell me how my console is inferior.
2012-07-30 01:57:09 PM
1 votes:
Why is anyone still buying ubisoft games for any platform?
2012-07-30 01:44:00 PM
1 votes:
Did Google find it because it caused their rootkit to crash?
2012-07-30 01:16:40 PM
1 votes:
Handsome B. Wonderful: Saborlas: Go ahead, Glorious PC Gaming Master Race... tell me how my console is inferior.

Underpowered graphics at shiat resolution.


Have your high resolution as you sit 3 feet away on your 27" screen (if that much), I'll be kicking back on my flexsteel recliner about 10 feet away from my 60" screen laying back. Playing games... WITH FRIENDS, like in the SAME ROOM! Like REAL friends not "internet friends".
2012-07-30 01:07:28 PM
1 votes:
Weaver95: that's the sort of thing that can put a hacker in jail for five and a third to 10. Sony only paid a minor fine for slipping a rootkit into their customer's computers tho, so Ubisoft will likely get a slap on the wrist for raping US computer crimes laws.

Remember - computer crimes laws don't apply to corporations. they only apply to the little people like you and me.


Somebody in Anonymous needs to create a botnet using this Ubisoft DRM backdoor, and wipe out all systems running the Ubisoft malware, with a big "ha ha" image on bootup along with "thank Ubisoft for your destroyed data"

I imagine the court cases that would ensue might just put an end to the asshattery of obtrusive DRM once and for all.
2012-07-30 01:06:49 PM
1 votes:
meat0918: Saborlas: Go ahead, Glorious PC Gaming Master Race... tell me how my console is inferior.

Skyrim mods.


CiV mods
HL mods
 
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