Podquisition 348: Educated in the Arts
Added 2021-08-26 16:01:25 +0000 UTCWe are cultured, worldly sophisticates.
Games we played this week include:
Road 96 (9:30)
The Ascent (14:30)
Aliens: Fireteam Elite (17:20)
Twelve Minutes (23:55)
Psychonauts 2 (29:25)
Train Simulator (37:50)
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News things talked about in this episode:
Roblox exploits child labor for profit (39:15) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gXlauRB1EQ
State of California expands suit, claims Activision may have destroyed evidence of abuse (44:30) https://www.axios.com/activision-blizzard-lawsuit-temporary-workers-4a8fa284-a003-4c56-819c-43c7c2d3f3ca.html
Electronic Arts is releasing patents on accessibility features (49:20) https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2021-08-23-ea-shares-five-innovations-via-accessibility-patent-pledge-wants-other-devs-to-do-the-same
The market for retro games might be as full of fraud as every speculative market that came before. (53:25) https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/report-alleges-auction-and-grading-fraud-is-behind-recent-surge-in-retro-game-prices/
Twitch’s tags are being used to engage in coordinated hate raids on minority streamers. (59:20) https://www.washingtonpost.com/video-games/2021/08/25/twitch-hate-raids-streamers-discord-cybersecurity/
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Comments
Somewhat off-topic, but Weird History released a video recently about the Ford Pinto. As I watched I kept noticing how it mirrored the development of some video games ... except with deadlier consequences. Things like a rush development, refusal of executives to listen to problems, the push to reach unrealistic requirements, reluctance to fix serious issues, etc.
Jason Youngberg
2021-08-27 18:14:12 +0000 UTC"You would think that Twitch would care about a vulnerability at that scale". You would think that, yes. But any amount of experience in infosec will show you that corporations actively *do* *not* want to update their vulnerable systems. This resistance to upgrading (really, resistance to change, which absolutely shouldn't surprise you) is why we see so many compromises and attacks. So many breaches are outdated software (not even counting 0 days) or default, vulnerable configs (e.g. admin/admin login/password). I have actually seen a corporation ask a developer to change their product, to lie, so it doesn't report them as vulnerable, just so they don't have to upgrade. An upgrade that would take all of about 10 minutes to do. So no. I wouldn't think Twitch would want to patch the vulnerability.
Luna
2021-08-26 21:10:53 +0000 UTCSteph, are you not getting my messages? It's pretty important to me and it has me conflicted over your potential belief in something...
Cyberweasel89
2021-08-26 19:56:55 +0000 UTCSweet!
Robert Snader
2021-08-26 17:54:26 +0000 UTCIt's up! You can download it now
Alicejack Airheart
2021-08-26 17:53:19 +0000 UTCBooo. Thanks for speaking up though.
Robert Snader
2021-08-26 17:01:55 +0000 UTCI cannot either, and I know they have said SoundCloud has been giving them problems recently. I think this is a SoundCloud issue, not a JSS choice 😰
Alicejack Airheart
2021-08-26 17:00:12 +0000 UTCCannot download on SoundCloud. Is this intentional?
Robert Snader
2021-08-26 16:21:15 +0000 UTC<3
Alicejack Airheart
2021-08-26 16:02:45 +0000 UTC
