Lagg [lagg.me] writes:
We're in a climate where it's easy to accuse a company of spying on you by various means with a distinct possibility that you could be right. But sometimes a reality check is needed. A reddit user recently
posted a thread [reddit.com] accusing Valve of writing code for VAC that iterates your DNS cache and sends the hashed entries to their server. The proof provided of this was a prettied disassembly (that was not easily reproducible due to how VAC loads symbols) that showed only that VAC was indeed iterating the DNS cache. Which any embedded programmer knows is not exactly an uncommon thing to do. No socket code was to be seen. Today Gabe Newell
responded [reddit.com] to these allegations by confirming that no they do not in fact snoop your cache entries. There are probably a few things to learn from this, including but not limited to trusting a screenshot of code that
looks complex without understanding what it's doing is probably a bad idea and how to handle these situations before they snowball into a mob (as Reddit is wont to do).
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