525
Valve adds CD-ROM drive support to Steam Frame kernel, took less than ten minutes — update comes one day after user requests for capability in the Steam Community forum (www.tomshardware.com)
submitted 5 days ago by to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca
84 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 23 points 5 days ago (3 children)

The existence of it also adds another potential attack vector for hackers. It's unlikely that this would be a real problem, but any additional software is just another place that could be exploited.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 3 child comments
    •
  • [–] 11 points 5 days ago (2 children)

    Thats a really good point, especially with the more obscure modules.

    It must be interesting for steam to develop a hackable device in a market that usually locks their hardware down so aggressively.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
    •
  • [–] 6 points 5 days ago* (1 child)

    I mean just because steam doesn't mind you tinkering with their own hardware doesn't mean they should not try to secure the base system OS against outside intrusion (like a RAT entering in via an AUR installation using modules as an entry point)

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
    •
  • [–] 2 points 5 days ago

    Yeah, sorry I meant more in the way that a user in a VM is a really different threat surface to a full root user.

    For sure both should apply security patches, and avoid malware, I'm just wondering even within that model what the differences are.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent