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[–] BakedCatboy@lemmy.ml 106 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Thank goodness they refused to support Proton/Linux then because, and this is a direct quote from their ticket tracker: "Linux is an open door for cheaters" πŸ™„

[–] simple@piefed.social 20 points 3 months ago (2 children)

anti-cheat has nothing to do with server security

[–] BakedCatboy@lemmy.ml 38 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I think you're misunderstanding why I'm bringing it up. It's not because I think their server is protected by anticheat, but because they're both forms of security. And my point is that their security posture is focused on the wrong area by scapegoating Linux instead of where they should be focusing, server security. If you don't think their misplaced focus on Linux (which I agree is unrelated to server security) has anything to do with getting hacked then I don't know what to tell you.

To give it an analogy, if your local government had unmaintained roads and you commented about how they spend tons of resources on police patting down everyone to prevent them from planting gardens, sure you could say it's "not related to roads", but that's the whole point of bringing it up. It's unrelated which is why it's dumb to be focusing on it. Client sided anticheat is not equal to server security, but the misplaced security focus makes it relevant even if it's not specifically on topic.

It's like if a boat was sinking due to a huge hole and your captain was busy trying to stop people from tightening loose bolts on wobbly chairs. Yeah it's not the same thing, but that doesn't mean it isn't useful to point out the misplaced focus.

Does that make sense?

(Edited to make the metaphors illustrate both 1. unrelated issues being relevant to a discussion within the scope of misplaced focus and 2. that the misplaced focus in this case isn't even because they're spending resources on the other issue, but rather trying to scapegoat and block people from fixing the unrelated issue)

[–] essell@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Can you clarify, are they focused on Linux or ignoring it?

[–] BakedCatboy@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm assuming this is a good faith question and that you're not just just trying to play word games: they're focused on scapegoating Linux by refusing to support it and blaming it for supposedly being a security nightmare. I'm pointing out that this is misplaced obviously because they have bigger concerns, as evidenced by the article.

[–] essell@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I was confused by your metaphor so was genuinely trying to clarify!

I couldn't work out if you thought they're wasting resources on Linux or should be investing in Linux

[–] BakedCatboy@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago

I see! My metaphor was mainly meant to illustrate that whether anticheat is directly related to the current security issue is orthogonal to why I thought it was relevant to bring up. I could have picked a better one that didn't imply that their misplaced concern about Linux cheaters actually consumes resources.

Maybe a better metaphor would be a municipality refusing to do something about a small issue (maybe poor transit to a specific neighborhood) and also actively refusing to let that neighborhood solve the problem themselves (proton devs) with the excuse that allowing that neighborhood to have transit would cost too much (even if the neighborhood were to do it themselves) and cause more crime (painting Linux users as hackers) all the while some completely unrelated group is actually causing the crime elsewhere.

wish I could upvote this a second time

[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 83 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Shows I'm getting old. Previously it would have been 69 days

[–] NotSteve_@piefed.ca 32 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] kernelle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Imma hit Gen Z with a 23 skidoo next time they 6-7

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 months ago

My 8 y/o causally announced that 6-7 is retired. β€œIt was a 2025 meme, that’s like a joke, [classmate] says we need a new one this year”

Then later: β€œand I don’t get why skididi toilet is funny, it’s just people in toilets”

I love that kid so much.

[–] Iamsqueegee@sh.itjust.works 52 points 3 months ago

Heh heh 6-7, or whatever.

[–] SalamenceFury@lemmy.world 28 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I was wondering how the hell that could even happen twice but APPARENTLY Ubisoft has had issues with insiders leaking stuff to hackers to steal and sell accounts, so... I'm thinking they might have to fire EVERYONE in the support team and revoke all of their keys. It's clear the hackers have people in the support team giving them access.

[–] realitaetsverlust@piefed.zip 33 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Unlikely.

Something that's more likely is because of recent layoffs, the laid off employees sell their security keys/cookies etc online and the company apparently fails to revoke those. That's how Rockstar got hacked a while ago and had GTA6 clips leaked.

[–] Katana314@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Huh. Never thought I’d see a path of consequences that punishes companies disloyal to their employees.

Granted, these people are dooming their chances of working in the game industry again, but maybe at this point they’re okay with that burn.

[–] MotoAsh@piefed.social 7 points 3 months ago

Only if they're found out as the leaker.

[–] realitaetsverlust@piefed.zip 3 points 3 months ago

Granted, these people are dooming their chances of working in the game industry again

Difficult to proof that tho. Those things are usually sold on anonymous platforms like the darkweb. Unless you got another case of a darkweb marketplace or forums being run by the feds, it's nearly impossible to proof that it was you - you could probably always say "my keys were stolen by someone in IT or maybe someone hacked it, idk" and well, innocent until proven guilty helps you here.

[–] SalamenceFury@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago
[–] big_slap@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

I love siege but havent played in months due to arc raiders taking up all my free time now.

its incredibly disappointing to see how terrible support and security has been since the ten year anniversary dropped, but I dont know what the next option for ubisoft could be to fix this.

siege 2 has to be on the horizon with new security tools at some point, right?

[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months ago

So it was a child that hacked them huh, or an immature adult I guess.