kashifshah

@kashifshah@lemmy.sdf.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For security reasons⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Haha that is a great idea! Give the landmine kill a special animation just to make sure that the cheaters get the message or let them figure it out in time lol?

  Heh, did you share that inventory technique on news.ycombinator? I could have sworn that I read a story there a team doing that.

  I know exactly what you are talking about - I was digging into the modding of this one game and happened upon a cheater’s forum. Blew my mind that the first step was to completely gut your computer’s security lol. But at the same time, was enlightening to see that. Seems like some of the work has been moved to the Anti-Cheat systems, but I’m guessing that there must be large gaps in what the AC can actually do for you at the application level?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For security reasons⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Heh, I saw it on news.ycombinator.com back when it was announced- they have made strides if you can access TSA now!

  In the beginning it was just a form for every manner of authentication and then a big CTA, essentially telling other .gov entities to start making project requests.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For security reasons⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Kudos for looking out first your future self - I had to leave the field entirely after it got to the point where I couldn’t stand to look at a computer anymore. Still can’t for more than an hour, two years later.

  I intend to reply more later, because this does deserve a longer reply, but I am short on steam.

  In the meantime, have you heard of login.gov? Check that out. The day that .com gets a hook into that is the day that identity problems are (mostly) solved.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For security reasons⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Risk management is the name of the game, as always, eh?

  That’s a slick technique for anti-cheat, heh. What did you think of the Call of Duty “fake data” approach? That cracked me up - things in game that only cheaters can see, so they end up self-reporting themselces as cheaters lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For security reasons⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I spent about a decade in the enterprise software development space, so I totally get it. I couldn’t put it into words as well as you did, however.

  After watching the FCC bigwigs debate robocalls several years ago, I’ve become a believer in a future where your internet access is always authenticated to your real life ID, dark web excepted of course.

  In their case, it was posited as a best-in-class solution to the problem of spam in the telephony space. Same logic applies to email. I mean, look at what Twixxer did with the verified checkmark requiring a credit card. The trend is already there.

  I get the fear of being de-anonymized on the internet, but it may be the case of something we hate being something we need, when you start to throw deepfakes into the mix.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For security reasons⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Let’s talk about the security of using email to do anything in this day and age.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For security reasons⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Security ain’t free.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For security reasons⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  lol “security” in this case is probably more like expediency in trying to solve a spam problem

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If somebody spends the whole day watching fox or religious propaganda, gets worked up and all he can think of is owning a liberal or converting an unbeliever, is this person a victim or just gullible?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Being abnormally gullible can be a symptom of some types of mental health issues. Extremely gullible people, especially, deserve compassion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm giving up on open source⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  i gave up on software development