the source to BEAC has been leaked before and while that is bad (even though it’s been updated, so many weaknesses are known to the public now) it also sends copies of your files to its CaC Server
and this isn’t just old news and an outdated problem, last month an exploit letting hackers ban people was detected
There are a plethora of game devs out there who utilize kernel-level anti-cheats for their games. its not a new thing. I haven’t heard or seen of ANY of these anti-cheats going rogue, employees going rogue, COMAPNIES going rogue.
The ONLY instance of a bad install that I can think of, was ESEA and crypto-mining., more than a decade ago.
If battleye was really what y’all are trying to make it out to be, NO ONE would use it, as the risks are too high, see Rainbow 6 Siege, Valorant.
to play the devils advocate, it sends copies of your files to an external CaC server, if it was a ransomware all it’s be lacking is the tools to encrypt your hard drive due to its Kernal Access and ability to turn off drivers (allowing it to theoretically brick your system)
Oke if I was you I would not be playng this game then or buy console.
I mean it not like you dont have a choice… also please never ever show me a croped tweet as your suorce of information. Appricaite it hope you find better game that dont have anticheat
check my profile, i’m a console player lmao
Hey they Googled it and saw a tweet hahahahahha
I dunno, if I see a company website that hasn’t been updated since 2017, I kinda wonder how much is actually behind it. YMMV.
So what do you care??? Playstation was hacked few months ago did anyone took your card detailes or you missing money??? No…sooo whats the proboem??? you think hackers want our data and our money??? hahahahahahhahaha crazy
Sure. What happens to the data that’s sent to the CAC server? Its used to check based on previous files, signatures, other players, and previous sessions, and then its gone, or stripped of identifiers, and used for more training of the AC.
It is not stored, it is not sitting in plain-text on someone’s server.
There is a price to pay for security, and a trade-off between convenience and safety.
Another achivment for the poeple from Parana!
COD’s anti-cheat Ricochet was also abused recently.
BUT
it WAS NOT a rogue employee, rogue company, or rogue anti-cheat.
They were using signature-based detections, and they had hardcoded plain-text identifiers. All you had to do was spam “Aimbot” or another like “Nice Anti-Aim” in the chat or private message and when the AC scanned your memory, found those signatures for the text “aimbot or Anti-Aim” you got banned, as you had the signature in memory.
Is this a real possibility? It’s my biggest fear- false positive permanent bans…
Specially since the staff members don’t seem to consider false positives to be a possibility with their constant “just don’t cheat lol” responses.
What scares me the most is these responses on their end.
It doesn’t seem like they would be willing to even check and revise potential false positives.
If at least they were willing to manually check for false positives, I would feel better about this change…
But the idea of losing my 11 year old account on practically the only game I play over a false positive definitely terrifies me.
what is your point? writing “hahhahahahahahaha” doesn’t make your point any more correct? being concerned for your own privacy is a very logical opinion
judging by your responses you don’t have a clue what letting anything have access to the kernel and ability to disable drivers means, the Genshin Anticheat was hijacked a few years back and due to it being a verified driver no AV or even the BIOS could detect it disabling key drivers and encrypting entire hard drives
Battleye had its source code leaked in 2014 and in November of this year hackers gained control of the servers which let them spoof UIDs and ban innocent players. this isn’t some “hurr durr anti cheat bad” this is worry over such an insecure and unsafe RAT being used in a very popular game
I hope not. I don’t want to be banned for something my laptop had installed on it from the factory (GeForce experience), something that I need to have hardware work (Logitech G Hub), or some other thing that’s unrelated to WT (maybe even a BeamNG multiplayer mod could trigger it, IDK).
And based on stafff responses, and how support would treat it, there’s no way you’ll get it back.
I think that we will see some sort of grace-period for the transfer, would make a lot of sense.
And from what I’ve seen here, if you truly got banned for no reason, they absolutely unban you.
I’ve seen the different side of that. Someone claimed they got banned for no reason, everyone clowned on them for it, turned out it was actually true.
Exactly what terrifies me the most.
I haven’t seen a single response to the false positive concerns actually addressing that possibility.
“Those won’t happen”.
“We will revise appeals to make sure.”
“We will be as careful as we can to prevent them.”
No.
Just “don’t cheat lol” responses to people asking about a possible false positive from literal GeForce Experience, as if false positives weren’t a frightening reality.
If you sacred then dont play this game simple as that…I mean thats all I can tell to you, now you continue to assume scenarios that didnt happened.
My understading is that this exploited allowed cheaters to impersonate your account. You can imagine how that would lead to you getting banned.
What the company actually says, jftr (link):
As a result, BattlEye generally will not store any information on most users.
Note that the processing of personal data by BattlEye is required in order to play the game or BE-protected parts of the game.
Furthermore, BattlEye may use automated decision-making when processing your personal data in order to be able to effectively fulfill its purpose.
The duration of the processing/storage:
BattlEye may store the information for the entire duration of the provision of its services for a game.