02-23-2018, 03:00 AM
https://www.extremetech.com/gaming/26441...aming-mods
Quote:Several days ago, reddit user Crankyrecursion found that FSLab’s A320 package contained malware known as Chrome Password Dump. It does exactly what it says it does — dump your Chrome passwords. Unsurprisingly, gamers have revolted against this, and the company’s CEO has offered a mixture of apologies and defensive explanation.
According to FSL, it added the Google Password Dump malware to its own products to catch a single individual. Flight Sim Labs discovered that this person was distributing authentication codes for the game using offline tools. Here’s how the company head, Lefteris Kalmaris, initially justified its behavior:
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This type of explanation raises more questions than it answers. Why couldn’t FSL create an account on the sites that were pirating its software? Even if we assume it was somehow blocked from doing so (you might need to know someone in the scene to get access), at what point did it start to seem reasonable to dump a frickin’ piece of malware on everyone’s computer?