Looks like games ubiquitous deployment might be exploited sooner rather than later. cc
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Tons of still widely played games are also completely unmaintained or at least close to it.
My experience with game code is that they also tend to have been far less concerned with security than elsewhere... and pretty much the norm to have a bunch of insecure ancient libraries.
It’s been funny seeing some prominent game developers saying that memory safety is useless to games for this reason
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TF2 was just on sale, and Respawn said that they had "1 to 2 people" working on it. The game has been pretty much unplayable because of hackers, and the whole story is pretty amazing WHY they're hacking the game and hacked Apex too..