Ubisoft's uPlay poses a bigger threat than DRM annoyance.
Bringing up Ubisoft's always-online DRM through uPlay is sure to elicit groans of annoyance and protest from any PC gamer. The latest issue with uPlay is only sure to aggravate them even further.
Google information security engineer Tavis Ormandy discovered that the browser plugin to launch uPlay opened up a backdoor that allowed any website access to a user's computer.
" …I bought a video game called "Assassin's Creed Revelations". I didn't have much of a chance to play it, but it seems fun so far. However, I noticed the installation procedure creates a browser plugin for it's [sic] accompanying uplay launcher, which grants unexpectedly (at least to me) wide access to websites," wrote Ormandy in a post on Seclists.org.
Luckily, Ubisoft was quick to respond to the exploit and managed to release a patch that fixed the issue within a day.
"We have made a forced patch to correct the flaw in the browser plug-in for the Uplay PC application that was brought to our attention earlier today. We recommend that all Uplay users update their Uplay PC application without a Web browser open. This will allow the plug-in to update correctly," said Ubisoft in a statement.
Considering that 21 Ubisoft titles use uPlay, among them some of Ubisoft's biggest titles—the Assassin's Creed series, Driver: San Francisco, and Ghost Recon: Future Soldier—it was imperative that Ubisoft quickly resolve the issue. So far, there's been no word on whether or not any uPlay users have been hacked as a result of the exploit.
I will not buy another Ubisoft game ever again if they implement their Ucrap DRM. I'm not surprised that this security vulnerability in their software slipped through--they can't even get their program to run properly and not interfere with the games its bundled with, much less investigate possible security flaws...
look at the casinos as an example, how many years have they been trying to discourage cheating
drm only affects the customer, this puts people off buying the game and encourages people to break it
for example ive completed battlefield 3 on a borrowed ps3 copy because i do not like origin at all,
nothing they do will change my mind and get me to play the game short of them removing it from the game, id quite happily use a program like steam where you only need to login once a month, which you are happy to do anyway because its a quick way to check for updates on all your games.
besides you can't beat steams offers
Steam is DRM. DRM done better than most others, but DRM just the same.
I felt the same way, until like I mentioned, I tried to play one of their games, and the DRM itself was interrupting the gameplay.
I'm fine with DRM when it's done fine. It wasn't until recently that I had a not-good experience with DRM.
but UPlay is like a complete opposite of what I asking for.
It would seem the pirates are not only getting the drm infested software to behave better but should it be more secure as well! WTF!
Perhaps its time to stop adding to the 250+ titles strong steam account!