But then remove the management oversight

The article describes a tool that grabs the data without admin privileges, but yes, there are methods used by current malware to escalate privileges.

1995 calling would be telling you you need to roll your own kernel to be efficient on your 486

So they sold it to people they knew couldn’t comply with the TOS, then started enforcing the TOS four months later.

They know where their customers live. They know customers ignore system requirements if the game works.

Neat!

They couldn’t use it. MS DOS is released under a licence that restricts redistribution

Yes. You could make menus and capture keystrokes in batch files

My autoexec.bat back in windows 3 asked if you wanted windows or a command line (most games didn’t like the memory overhead of being loaded from windows)

Some places have crappy internet, so they need it

You and I can download a 1300MB game, it’s not necessarily so in Brunei

You could also correlate time of your log entry to order of comments sorted by new, with errors from the few clients that don’t load images

At it’s basic level it will capture your IP address, but it won’t really tie the IP to a user name, and there’s not a role lot you can do with it

Attacks I can think of:

• target advertising at users in a particular lemmy community
• get a collection of IP addresses of people with specific problems or beliefs (indicated by membership in a lemmy community) to target with malware

A VPN would protect you in this case, but you need to be a bit of a privacy nut to also protect yourself from things that identify for advertising right now