On: VRchat bans mods, embraces EAC

[sensitivefrost]

How so?

[google234123 → sensitivefrost]

They are saying if you download an application (e.g. vrchat.exe) from the internet than it can steal your passwords as soon as you launch it.

[sensitivefrost → google234123]

That's not what VRchat's blog post say at all, though.

"Every month, thousands of users have their accounts stolen, often due to running a modified client that is silently logging their keystrokes as well as other information. These users – often without even realizing it! – run the risk of losing their account, or having their computers become part of a larger botnet."

People running a backdoor client and getting their passwords stolen? That doesn't sound... wrong?

[sudosysgen → sensitivefrost]

The wrong part is that somehow EAC will help prevent that. It won't.

[shultays → sudosysgen]

It would prevent it in a way that you know that the mod you are downloading is not likely to work and you wouldn't download it in the first place.

[sudosysgen → shultays]

Not really, some mods will still work

[google234123 → sudosysgen]

The chance of some application downloaded for free on the internet will bypass EAC is minuscule