what eBPF does

Holy shit, that’s like curl | sudo bash on steroids. Fucking hilarious.

The problem is not the high-level solution. If the anti-cheat does what they claim – great.

If.

The problem is that EACv2 itself is unverified machine code running with elevated privileges. Unless the source code is released, it will be impossible to know what kinds of shenanigans it engages in. It demands that users trust it implicitly, along with the people and clankers that wrote it, the mistakes they made, and the people and interests they are beholden to.

Trust should be earned, and the fact that people have been indoctrinated to give it away freely should be deeply concerning to everyone.

Hmmm… do I want to run unverified code in my kernel from the “Programming is too hard!” guys?

Bro. Stop. It’s called mockery. A joke at the expense of others. A denigrating remark to the detriment of a person or entity, often (but not necessarily) based on real observations.

Obviously, global shortcuts probably won’t leak personal data, I’m not a fucking moron. But Discord has had several high-profile massive data leaks, with some, frankly, bullshit official responses. It’s fun to mock them by assuming there will be another.

I guess I’m sorry that your life is bereft of whimsy.

Can’t wait to see how this will result in another massive leak of personal data that they totally don’t retain.

Our business-critical internal software suite was written in Pascal as a temporary solution and has been unmaintained for almost 20 years. It transmits cleartext usernames and passwords as the URI components of GET requests. They also use a single decade-old Excel file to store vital statistics. A key part of the workflow involves an Excel file with a macro that processes an HTML document from the clipboard.

I offered them a better solution, which was rejected because the downtime and the minimal training would be more costly than working around the current issues.