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by exabrial 2251 days ago
agree... but it's just a video game :/
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A video game that had millions of users
and that changes things how?
Just a video game? Imagine someone plays this game inside a corporate network, gets compromised, and the data for millions of people is stolen and leaked into the wild.

The function of the actual program that gets exploited is irrelevant to security risk.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man

I was referring to the relative importance in context of the parent comment. No need to conflate my words.