Comment on Block Blasters: Theft of $32k in crypto from a stage 4 cancer patient due to valve’s incompetence in allowing malware on their platform

ryathal@sh.itjust.works ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• lazynooblet@lazysoci.al ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  If it’s true they the malicious game has been available for a month then steam has some blame.

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  • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Why so? Assuming this is the 1st complaint against the game, what was steam supposed to do in the past month?

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    • Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Steam could easily gave automation the installs and runs games in a sandbox. Then watches what they do. The things it needed to do to steal the crypto should be vastly different than what a game should be allowed to do.

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      • dafta@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

        This isn’t foolproof. A lot of malware these days is resistant to analysis because they can detect that they’re running in a sandbox and refuse to run the malicioua code.

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    • kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Obviously, Steam is supposed to vet the source code of every game thoroughly before it ever gets put up for sale.

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      • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨21⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

        I wonder how many people are taking your statement at face value without recognising the sarcasm…

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