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I don’t get why people are all of a sudden so careful about their privacy in tf2. You blindly install metamod, sourcemod and other plugins on your server and don’t question if they privately collect data and send it somewhere. Moreover you join servers randomly and don’t bother to find out what plugins are running on the server, for all we know they could be collecting all sorts of data and sending it to someone (hide yo kids).

For some reason Anakin’s plugin is the problem here, it’s like people are too stupid to realize that someone else could’ve been collecting data all these years when you’ve played tf2.

Let’s just blame Anakin’s plugin for collecting data and not question the other plugins (they must be legit, because they haven’t mentioned anything about uploading screenshots/other data)

Valve has implemented these functions in the game/servers so that these kinds of plugins can be created. So anyone could create a similar plugin and there could very well be plugins that are collecting data from your tf2 game sessions.

If you don’t want to play on a server with Anakins plugin, you better not play on any server, you might be better off just uninstalling or playing on a localhost against bots, because you can never know what plugins are installed on a server.

You can never be too sure, I think everyone would be better of uninstalling the game.

As much as I applaud catching the cheaters, there is a very strict line that has been crossed here. I do not condemn the results but the methods.

That line is protected by laws in certain countries. The line I am talking about is the transmission of data to third parties without a users consent.

Quoted from Salmon

I don’t get why people are all of a sudden so careful about their privacy in tf2. You blindly install metamod, sourcemod and other plugins on your server and don’t question if they privately collect data and send it somewhere. Moreover you join servers randomly and don’t bother to find out what plugins are running on the server, for all we know they could be collecting all sorts of data and sending it to someone (hide yo kids).

They are open source and/or well documented. They also don’t maliciously update themselves, or at least provide an option to set this behaviour.

Taking screenshots is not a big deal – randomly updating a plugin on other people’s servers, effectively altering its behaviour entirely, is.

Quoted from Casual

3. Looking at all the client->server exploits that used to exist I can only imagine how many server->client exploits there are.

The most worrying part of this in the scope of this plugin is that anakin doesn’t know where to draw the line.

Quoted from quik

checked all the screenies from pingtimeout pack, only 1 cheater – tarkus.

get a life ilya

Quoted from Spike Himself

They are open source and/or well documented. They also don’t maliciously update themselves, or at least provide an option to set this behaviour.

“Game is fucking broken” isn’t well documented enough for you?

Quoted from Shintaz

http://i.imgur.com/UgyJG.jpg

Seems legit

Oh no

anakin would you release the code for your plugin to the etf2l admins and let the coders verify your plugin that it solely takes screenshot from tf2 ingame and nothing else?