What is Tavern Worker?

[Adam]

Tavern Worker got installed with the game , is it like an Anti Cheat?

[CyanCatMan]

Originally posted by CrunchyDaz:

I love how everyone is all worried about security but apprently puts all their banking info, social security, tax information, blood type, and everything else they don't want stolen, on thier hard drive.

Hate to break it to you, but there's nothing they could take from you thats going to effect you or your life at all. I'm sorry but you don't have super secret files that everyone wants to get into. You have basically nothing of worth to anyone.

Your name and phone number is more valuable then anything on your PC and they already have it.

I’m not about the mentality of burning down my house because my stoves on fire but thanks i guess

[Tristin]

Just take private stuff off to external disk.

This game is not only thing you should worry about. If you are online, expect all your data to be public.

[CyanCatMan]

Originally posted by Tristin:

Just take private stuff off to external disk.

This game is not only thing you should worry about. If you are online, expect all your data to be public.

Why do i have to worry about a video game of all things accessing my data?
That's the last thing we should be worrying about but here we are.

[maichinshinar]

Originally posted by Louis Harriger:

I figured out a temporary solution to AT LEAST to protect the confidentiality of your data. If you use Windows, you can use disk encryption or (if using pro edition) Bitlocker. Combine this with account-level file encryption.

Thank you for the informative answer!
Did not realize they had added this until I saw this thread. Into the bin it goes, right next to league until I can build an anonymous gaming pc, insane we have to go to these lengths.

[ShaZe]

Originally posted by Louis Harriger:

I figured out a temporary solution to AT LEAST to protect the confidentiality of your data. If you use Windows, you can use disk encryption or (if using pro edition) Bitlocker. Combine this with account-level file encryption.

Without going into step-by-step details, you need to:

1) Create a separate local standard user (non-admin) account to run DaD on.
2) Enable full disk encryption for your secondary or tertiary drives (quaternary?).
3) Enable folder-level encryption tied to your normal account (using the properties menu under advanced "encrypt contents to secure data" — be sure to backup the encryption keys in multiple places for recovery).

Then every time you want to play DaD you would log into your DaD user on your computer. When you are done and you want to access your files again, then you need to reboot your computer. (Always reboot your computer without logging into your primary account prior to playing DaD to ensure that your files are encrypted and inaccessible to this mysterious process).

This is the only solution I could come up with to at LEAST protect the confidentiality of your private files, since we do not know what the DaD devs have created this process to do. Is it enumerating all files and transmitting this list of these files back to the dev's servers? Is it just checking files for known fingerprint of software used to cheat? What is it doing? In any case it shouldn't be constantly scanning our drives.

Until we know what it does, players should take the time to protect the confidentiality of their data by protecting it.

Note: the process may still read the drive causing wear and tear. This does not solve that problem.

References:
- https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/how-to-encrypt-a-file-1131805c-47b8-2e3e-a705-807e13c10da7
- https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/turn-on-device-encryption-0c453637-bc88-5f74-5105-741561aae838

Unmapping the drive letter might be a much easier solution. The only reason I didn't go for that route is because it also require a reboot and stuff that require reboots are as bad as dual booting in my opinion.

Everytime I have done a dual boot system, I got too annoyed to keep using it. Multi-users solutions are not as bad because you can switch quickly but yeah, in this case it doesn't work really well.

[ShaZe]

Originally posted by CrunchyDaz:

I love how everyone is all worried about security but apprently puts all their banking info, social security, tax information, blood type, and everything else they don't want stolen, on thier hard drive.

Hate to break it to you, but there's nothing they could take from you thats going to effect you or your life at all. I'm sorry but you don't have super secret files that everyone wants to get into. You have basically nothing of worth to anyone.

Your name and phone number is more valuable then anything on your PC and they already have it.

I don't think you understand that their approach is ineffective while also reducing your hardware lifespan by constantly wearing it down.

Whether they actually gather information from your system or not doesn't even matter at that point.

[SeaHacking]

Originally posted by CrunchyDaz:

I love how everyone is all worried about security but apprently puts all their banking info, social security, tax information, blood type, and everything else they don't want stolen, on thier hard drive.

Hate to break it to you, but there's nothing they could take from you thats going to effect you or your life at all. I'm sorry but you don't have super secret files that everyone wants to get into. You have basically nothing of worth to anyone.

Your name and phone number is more valuable then anything on your PC and they already have it.

Bad take. "They know your name, therefor they should be able to read your hard drive"
Cashier at target knows your name and phone number when you use your rewards card, why are you hiding your tax docs from him?

[saber fan]

Originally posted by CyanCatMan:

Originally posted by Tristin:

Just take private stuff off to external disk.

This game is not only thing you should worry about. If you are online, expect all your data to be public.

Why do i have to worry about a video game of all things accessing my data?
That's the last thing we should be worrying about but here we are.

pretty sure they can record your screen now which is see everything you see.

[SeaHacking]

Originally posted by saber fan:

Originally posted by CyanCatMan:

Why do i have to worry about a video game of all things accessing my data?
That's the last thing we should be worrying about but here we are.

pretty sure they can record your screen now which is see everything you see.

True, but still different from rummaging through disk. ShaZe made a better point then the security stuff though, the big reason I don't like programs maxxing disk access is the reduced lifespan of disks, mine are old to begin with and I'd prefer to have some control over which programs are reading terrabytes of data from them.

[Louis Harriger]

I find it mind boggling to see people who actually think that you shouldn't have your private data secure on your own computer. I guess it is the difference between the adult players and the kids?

[Dkorador]

Idk what it is, but after uninstalling the game, that thing still installed on your PC

[Louis Harriger]

Originally posted by Dkorador:

Idk what it is, but after uninstalling the game, that thing still installed on your PC

Thank you for letting me know. Did you find a way to remove it?

[araghon007]

"Everything is spying on you anyway" mfs when I leak their gay porn collection and search history

[Josezinho]

How can a game on Steam have so many suspicions of spyware, when I buy a game or get a free game, I instantly believe that the game was verified by Steam before being posted...

[CyanCatMan]

Originally posted by Josezinho:

How can a game on Steam have so many suspicions of spyware, when I buy a game or get a free game, I instantly believe that the game was verified by Steam before being posted...

If its not outright malicious then who cares? Just look at half these comments and they’ll tell you the exact same thing.

Of course if peoples systems keep going into overdrive and start getting damaged thats fair game for steam to start reconsidering allowing this game on its platform.