Author: Hellfire
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Uplay as vessel for malicious software
I usually like titles with a pun or something on those lines, attempting to find a funny side even in a disaster. Not this time. Not when the threat is so dangerous and imminent. According to this article there’s a huge hole in Uplay’s browsers plugin which lets anybody run potentially anything on the victim’s…
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What’s yours is not yours
Last week the European Parliament stated that it’s illegal to not let customers resell their own software, even if it’s been bought on a digital delivery platform. What Valve answered, about the chance to let customers resell their legally bought software, is basically a very simple, direct, straight middle finger. “We don’t have any…
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Apple DRM update breaks apps
Simple as that: the latest FairPlay* update made several different apps impossible to use. Also, first help from Apple, “delete, reinstall and it will work fine”, was of no use. Has the problem been tracked down? Solved maybe? I don’t care. The money I spend always works, never needs a patch or an…
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Go ACTA yourself!
That’s basically what the European Parliament said yesterday, with a crushing 478 votes against vs 39 for. What does this mean? On one hand, the Old Continent is definitely safe from this plague, but on the other hand, after such a brutal defeat, another iteration of the same idiocy with a different name and…