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Old 31st Jul 2012, 10:29   #1
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Ubisoft coughs to Uplay security flaw
http://www.bit-tech.net/news/bits/20...lay-security/1
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Old 31st Jul 2012, 10:31   #2
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Perhaps we could merge this comment thread with this thread?
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Old 31st Jul 2012, 12:27   #3
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i think we need to make more threads till everyone knows how corrupt most if not all businesses are, never mind games companies. under the stopping piracy claim, sounds alot like the war on terror claim which was also just full of ulterior motives. IMHO
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Old 31st Jul 2012, 12:58   #4
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You know I was browsing my Chrome plug ins the other day and wondered why the hell Uplay needed a browser plug in.
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Old 31st Jul 2012, 14:48   #5
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The issue is not a rootkit. The issue was from... ...a coding error.
To paraphrase Mandy Rice-Davies: Well they would say that, wouldn't they.
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... the Uplay plugin - which is installed silently and automatically ...
Why doesn't ask persmission to install a plugin in the first place?
If I install something and it installs something else with out asking, I get very angry and would probably never download/buy anything from that company again.
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Old 31st Jul 2012, 15:49   #7
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Surely if you use Chrome this browser plugin doesn't do anything anyway?
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Old 31st Jul 2012, 15:53   #8
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Reminds me of this interview GameSpy did: http://i.imgur.com/ZNs7p.jpg
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Why on earth does a game DRM need a browser plug-in anyway? Certainly if I had it installed that plugin would be getting the boot regardless of security flaws.
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Old 31st Jul 2012, 23:17   #10
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Sounds like a Trojan to me, you think your installing a game but instead you end up with a malicious browser plugin.
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Old 1st Aug 2012, 00:25   #11
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Just another reason why Ubisoft will not being getting my money.
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