The updated rootkit will be uploaded and installed to your computer kernel automatically upon closure of the deal.
I posted this to /c/news where it was promptly removed of course
For good reasons of course
The updated rootkit will be uploaded and installed to your computer kernel automatically upon closure of the deal.
For good reasons of course
Am in the clear if I haven’t installed one of those games. Or just purchase is just as bad??
Well, it’s a driver and it runs in the kernel with system level privileges. I imagine as long as it remains installed the computer will be vulnerable to whatever is in there. And it’s undecypherable compiled code so we can’t tell what it is doing. I suspect shady bits will use the TPM cryptoprocessor to hide any malicious code so we’ll never know what is in there.
Even if you uninstall it, it just says it is uninstalled but it’s not like you can verify if it really uninstalled it or just renamed the files to something innocuous.
I will re-install windows entirely as if it had been infected by malware, and I just hope there’s a way in Steam to identify all EA games and block them from every installing even by accident
install Linux… I use arch btw
I use windows 10 and debian 13 on proxmox 9 !
if you haven’t installed their games there’s nothing they can do.
Well that’s not strictly true. If you run Windows, you already have a root certificate installed on your computer from the government of Saudi Arabia (sha1 fingerprint 8351509B7DF8CFE87BAE62AEB9B03A52F4E62C79).
The purposes don’t include code signing, so they probably can’t use it directly for malware. But it includes server identification, so they could possibly intercept your traffic and resume https with their own cert (which hopefully your browser would flag, but isn’t guaranteed). That would allow them to serve malware.
An easy way to get access to your traffic is bgp hijacking: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BGP_hijacking
Just play their older games that don’t have this nonsense. That’s a compromise I’d be willing to make.
It means all EA games going forward will be hostile nazi spyware. They can drop illegal documents on your computer remotely. Take all your information, and sell it off quick on the cheap… to other nazis.
Nazis like this destroy everything they touch. EA wasn’t great, and was getting worse, but never deserves to be turned into nazi spyware - especially to anyone (not necessarily stupid, but probably) that enjoys sports (and their dumbass kids).
And disable automatic updates