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

How is a password protected zip file different from an encrypted blob? And a quick Google will show you dozens of devs asking how to do this in different engines, because it’s a very simple way to delay access to something, it won’t be permanent, but it can allow you to do stuff like pre-loading that game/DLC and activate them remotely.

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

You crypto heads always bring up the Argentinian Peso even though it’s still actually more stable than even Bitcoin.

I bought the Argentinian Peso because I am Argentinian, and lived through the devaluation of our currency, and the Patacones and Corralito, maybe because you haven’t experienced something similar you don’t understand just how much of “money” is based on trust.

People aren’t buying Argentinian Pesos thinking they might become rich one day, because it’s an actual currency, not a speculative asset, which is what crypto is.

You can speculate with anything, the fact that people speculate with crypto has no bearing on it being money or not. Also you might be unaware but people do speculate with dollars/pesos in Argentina, that does not disqualify either of those as money.

But ignoring that, most of the world does actually accept US dollars

No, you’re wrong, outside of Argentina and the US (and a few tourist heavy places) I have never seen stores that accept dollars. This is a misconception Americans have, dollars are not accepted worldwide, you need to exchange it for the location currency, just like how trying to pay for stuff in the USA with Euros or Reais would not work.

it’s the most traded currency in the world.

Bitcoin is more traded than some small countries currency, if that mattered then Bitcoin would be more of a currency than that one.

It’s also safe to say in nearly every country you can probably exchange USD to the local currency fairly easily.

Also possible to exchange Bitcoin, that has no bearing.

If you can find me a city where more stores accept Bitcoin rather than the designated currency, then sure. I’m not sure a single one exists.

Than the designated currency no, but than a specific currency absolutely, I’m 99% sure every city I’ve lived for the past 5 years has more places that accept Bitcoin than Argentinian Peso.

And that’s bitcoin, which actually is well known and traded. What the person in the article lost wasn’t even that, not any other well known crypto like Ethereum.

Still, it’s a problem of definition, money is an abstract concept, one where is very hard for you to find a definition that includes all of the countries currency but doesn’t include Bitcoin.

But here’s the most important thing that goes through everyone’s heads, just because something is money doesn’t mean it has inherent value. People who invest in crypto, be it FT or NFT, are no different from people who invest in gold or art. And scams involving crypto are no different from other scams, you don’t go around saying emails are scam because people use them to scam others.

All of that being said, crypto bros are the other extreme from you, thinking that crypto is a magical solution to everything and can’t see the glaring issues that will make it impossible from being adopted in any meaningful scale (and it boils down to cryptocurrencies having the same attributes than paper money, bit people not taking digital security seriously the same way they do with securing paper currency)

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

Here’s a steam forum of someone asking why some devs do that from a year ago: steamcommunity.com/…/4423184558852867037/ so it is done by other devs.

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

By that definition the Argentinian Peso is not money because it’s not stable, nor is the dollar since the majority of stores in the world don’t accept it (mostly just the ones in the USA do, and a couple of others here and there, but definitely not the majority worldwide). And if you’re going to start randomly limiting locations, I’m fairly confident you can find a specific neighborhood or city where more stores accept Bitcoin than dollars, and worldwide I’m fairly confident more stores accept Bitcoin than Tuvaluan dollar, does that mean that that is not money?

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

Password protected zip file is also a way to deliver content an indie dev might use to lock content, so that on its own is not enough, but also the “payload” was connecting to a remote server, which is not indication of bad behavior, lots of games connect to remote servers and receive commands from there, e.g. event X starts now, or something. Except in this case it allowed a reverse shell.

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

No automated scan would have captured this, only a paid professional dedicating some time would (and only because this was an obvious attempt, a more subtle one would go unnoticed even by an expert) and that is not feasible.

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

Have you seen the malware? It would have passed that test.

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

That’s not analyzing the code. Also almost assuredly steam does that. Finally that wouldn’t catch this since it was a back door, as long as the attacker didn’t use it it would not be detected by any automated means.

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

And it is very easy to detect you’re in a virtual environment and not do those things, or have a date to trigger the changes or something. The game had been out for a while when this happened without any issues. I just dug a little bit and it was opening a back door apparently, so as long as the attacker did nothing at that time it would have been impossible to detect. You had to know that it was malicious to look for it, then it was quite obvious, but with Valve needing to vet millions of games it’s not feasible to do a full scan of every update of every game.

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

What is your definition of money then?

Nibodhika, do games w Looking for a PC FPS with deep gunplay, where NPC enemies are humans

I’m not a us citizen, and there’s a big difference between the government uses my taxes for war to a game will use my money for war. You have no choice over the taxes, but by knowing this and still buying the game, you’re saying that your hours of entertainment are more valuable than people’s lives. And yeah, not buying the game won’t bankrupt the Kremlin, but it’s like throwing gasoline to a fire, you’re fueling the war, imagine someone whose house is on fire and throws gasoline in it because “the fire won’t extinguish if I stop throwing gasoline in it”

Nibodhika, do games w Looking for a PC FPS with deep gunplay, where NPC enemies are humans

Like MurrayL@lemmy.world said in other comment:

Purchasing Escape from Tarkov directly supports Russia’s war in Ukraine

Nibodhika, do games w Looking for a PC FPS with deep gunplay, where NPC enemies are humans

That’s fucked up, games should not be removed from your library.

Nibodhika, do games w Looking for a PC FPS with deep gunplay, where NPC enemies are humans

Thanks for this. I wasn’t planning on buying it anyways but now if I ever do want to play this I will sail the high seas before giving them a penny.

Nibodhika, do games w Microsoft starts rolling out Gaming Copilot on Windows 11 PCs

The same reason why there are many political parties, or restaurant brands, or even games: everyone thinks that their way is better, or are trying to improve on something that they like.

I get that it can be daunting for someone wanting to start, but just like with other topics you should start with something simple to dip your toes and move on from there. My personal recommendation has been Linux Mint, it has sane defaults, works out of the box for most cases and it’s popular enough (and based on another popular distro) which makes getting help easier.

Trying to pick your distro from the sea of available options might feel impossible, but 99% of the stuff is the same, so picking something that works out of the box for you is a great start, and you can learn what you need to make a meaningful choice afterwards.

Let me give you an example on the sort of differences you can expect: do you think that updates should be delivered as soon as possible or leave some delay to catch bugs/issues? If a delay how big should it be?; How much stuff should come installed by default with your system? Should you get a bare ones system to build up or something at least functional for everyday tasks to adapt?; Should you be able to edit your system files or should they be locked so it’s harder to break stuff?. These sort of questions might seem pointless, but they’re the core differences between Linux distros, and if you’re answer to them is I don’t know/care anything that works out of the box would be good enough until you develop an opinion on the matter.

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