Is Battleye Safe?

[Shmello]

Should I Download It?

[egs]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Zondollor:

Hi, I just installed TC Rainbow Six Extraction and got a Battleye notification listing all of the information it needs from my system and one of the things it needs is my IP address, which raised a red flag for me and is when I decided to look it up to see if it was safe and found nothing useful so I contacted Ubisoft directly and asked about it at https://www.esrb.org/privacy/contact/ and ask them why Battleye needs my IP address and they said "It's so we can track down cheaters", and to any smart person who knows what an IP address is it is basically a long string of numbers that identifies your computer on a network, sort of like how your home address identifies your home on a GPS (Global Positioning System) out of all the homes in the world. And that is when I asked them again while this time being more specific as to find out in what way do they track down cheaters and I was told "We look through the accounts and collect anything note worthy", and I asked again only this time about what they deem "note worthy" and they sent nothing back so far. And I will say that it using an IP address does seam odd if all your doing is trying to stop hackers but what's even more interesting is it looking through other accounts and files which is probably the largest security risk out there because you just never know what will happen with your data.

IP-address is the least privacy concern of anti-cheat modules like Battleye and EAC. While you run it on your machine it has total control of your system, what files you open, what programs you run and what you type with your keyboard.
This might no be a problem for a lot of young people using their PC's as gaming-only machine. But there is another problem, this "module" greatly increase attack surface on your computer, for cheater, for example, if they find a way to exploit it remotely via the game you play with him, he may get the same access as the module, compromising your system and have much more control of your computer than you do.
Yes, they had some success in the past, crashing player's computer. If they did something more harmful we won't know.

[inexistente, una memoria mas]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Isabelle:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von 󠀰:

It's a rat (like every "good" anti cheat), but that's the price u gotta pay for playing the game.

1. rodents are worth more than people
2. its "intrusive", i suppose, but it doesn't report your passwords to the government or whatever. so its pretty much good in my book

probably works the same way as ESEA and FACEIT, not related to r6 afaik but they all do the same things

[Isabelle]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von TTEOKBOKKI !:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Isabelle:

1. rodents are worth more than people
2. its "intrusive", i suppose, but it doesn't report your passwords to the government or whatever. so its pretty much good in my book

probably works the same way as ESEA and FACEIT, not related to r6 afaik but they all do the same things

not super familiar with battleye but i think it has really deep level access (to scan for enabled cheat software)

[inexistente, una memoria mas]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Isabelle:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von TTEOKBOKKI !:

probably works the same way as ESEA and FACEIT, not related to r6 afaik but they all do the same things

not super familiar with battleye but i think it has really deep level access (to scan for enabled cheat software)

I have one, for csgo and tf2

[Isabelle]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von TTEOKBOKKI !:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Isabelle:

not super familiar with battleye but i think it has really deep level access (to scan for enabled cheat software)

I have one, for csgo and tf2

if you cheat in any battleye game you get banned from every battleye game.

don't cheat in any games. easy.

[Burgundy_β]

culture shock by console pleb or single player pirate question.
but you're not. GTA Online, CoD, and Destiny 2?