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Anti-Cheat Expert: all your pixels are belong to us
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In today’s digital age, the line between ensuring fair play in online gaming and safeguarding personal privacy is becoming increasingly blurred. Researchers who found out that Vanguard was taking screenshots of the game it was protecting appeared to believe it was capturing the whole screen with wreckless abandon. In this case, ACE took a special route; this loop is reminiscent of old CRT raster scanning patterns by screenshotting the whole width of your display at once; but only 16 pixels in height per iteration.
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