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by nkozyra 3821 days ago
Interested in details about this; where were Doom's major security issues? I love reading about Carmack/Doom development in general, maybe I've missed the part where caution was thrown to the wind and security was ignored.
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Seems like there never were security issues. At least, none that were talked about widely. I think that should be expected for a single player game. Almost all games are hack-able in some way of course but hacking a single player game is mostly an exercise in replay-ability.

On a related note: Doom apparently does contribute to security proof of concepts though. http://www.techtimes.com/articles/15606/20140916/security-ex...

Which makes me wonder if the non-clearing memory issue exists for the printer's video driver and whether that could be used to retrieve something like a saved password or ssh key.