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The games journalist debate over covering the hack is a look in the mirror

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[-] vexikron@lemmy.zip -3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Uh... I have managed and maintained cybersecurity policies for a non profit albeit not as head of IT but working in close cooperation with him as the team i was on was in charge of a huge system that nearly all employees and definitely all our clients used.

We successfully managed to not have any cybersecurity incidents while I was working there.

We gave everyone work phones and work laptops because that is how you do cybersecurity right.

And uh, no, if youre going by companies specifically being targeted and compromised by hackers, as opposed to hackers going for anything connected to a widely used software service, uh, gaming companies are actually doing far worse than other industries, likely due in large part to incompetent management.

Sure, yep, its chilling that employees at video game companies are at risk because their management is incompetent.

No clue what you mean by 'gaming was always weirdly secretive when compared to movies and music.' Music and movies are even easier to pirate than video games which have to be cracked... Not sure what youre talking about here.

And oh dear god here at the end youre going to 'for the record' inform me, a person who has written code for game mods for 20 years and professionally for various roles in the tech industry for a decade that games have open source and closed source code in them.

Thats not even relevant to how a whole company's network gets breached and its employees get basically doxxed.

The... the video game company's internal software for managing employee records, clock ins, clock outs, wage payment, emails, etc, is different from the software it uses in its product, the game.

It doesnt matter if a game has OpenGL and a bit of a liscensed proprietary physics engine.

Thats not connected to the company email server.

Why do you have such an arrogant attitude when you have no idea what you are talking about?

[-] MudMan@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

Honestly, my response to everything you said is on my first post. Including the "you'd love doing IT for a game studio" part.

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