New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Playing multiplayer games while BYOD WFH
Ask HN: Playing multiplayer games while BYOD WFH
2 by embeddedsystems | 0 comments on Hacker News.
I work at a large-ish non-tech company that was forced into WFH by covid and was not really prepared for it. We install a SSL VPN and DLP software, and it split tunnels traffic. It's not a tech co and we weren't all issued corporate macbook pros or similar. We do handle some user data on these, and I believe the customer service people are also in the same situation, BYOD + VPN. I don't get paid enough to buy a whole separate setup. I've recently found out (thanks to a HN post) that virtually all of the online games I play use increasingly invasive anticheats, and some such as Battleye will send the full contents of every certificate and driver installed, including work ones, and Hackshield/Gameguard send PII, full paths, names of open files, all of the above send full window titles and other contents that might contain personal information - even while there are no games running, and several of the rootkits start at boot. These services start and run at all times, and are not uninstalled when you uninstall the game. I definitely have had private full names and private internal email addresses and other such things in window titles, items that would be considered 'restricted' in filenames of documents. Do I need to be worried about this from a legal or "leaking trade secrets/PII" point of view because of the spyware that virtually every game in the world installs?
2 by embeddedsystems | 0 comments on Hacker News.
I work at a large-ish non-tech company that was forced into WFH by covid and was not really prepared for it. We install a SSL VPN and DLP software, and it split tunnels traffic. It's not a tech co and we weren't all issued corporate macbook pros or similar. We do handle some user data on these, and I believe the customer service people are also in the same situation, BYOD + VPN. I don't get paid enough to buy a whole separate setup. I've recently found out (thanks to a HN post) that virtually all of the online games I play use increasingly invasive anticheats, and some such as Battleye will send the full contents of every certificate and driver installed, including work ones, and Hackshield/Gameguard send PII, full paths, names of open files, all of the above send full window titles and other contents that might contain personal information - even while there are no games running, and several of the rootkits start at boot. These services start and run at all times, and are not uninstalled when you uninstall the game. I definitely have had private full names and private internal email addresses and other such things in window titles, items that would be considered 'restricted' in filenames of documents. Do I need to be worried about this from a legal or "leaking trade secrets/PII" point of view because of the spyware that virtually every game in the world installs?
