SECURITY RESEARCH AND DATA PRIVACY
Always Rambling on about Games and Security
Support Agent observations in Tom Clancy’s The Division 2; an online RPG from Ubisoft and Massive Entertainment.
Exploits and Mistrust chronicles
Like most people the toll and impact of this “unseen thing” has forced an irreversible change in Life. For me self-isolation has been an emotion cage I struggle to escape, sometimes in control, but deeply troubled I wonder from day-to-day with no real aim or goals.
In a few more days a new era begins as I’m released from my current mission. Maybe this cage is not a cage at all.
What’s my next mission Guv?
[Rant] This wave of forced remote workers has put us into unique position of actually looking at the various tiers of remote workers and how they are treated in the virtual workplace.
Societies in general have never really respected the virtual worker either the Road Warrior executive, the application developer or administrator. The truth is the temptation to goof off and waste the day on non-work-related activities is overwhelming alongside constant interruptions from friends and family who don’t respect the virtual workspace.
Coming together as teams works really well but becoming chronically isolated is very common and I did slip into a brain fog over and over again trying to focus on complicated topic usually discussed face-to-face.
My online collaborations and relations with fellow gamers have been an excellent but somewhat distracting occupation. In the absence of clear boundaries you have to make your own.
Outside the gaming industry news of compromised gaming accounts will appear as pretty trivial in the scope of things. 160k worldwide accounts is relatively small but what if your data was involved?
Typically, your account could be used for money laundering activities leading the law directly to your doorstep. Anyhow, I will not be losing any sleep over this and why is 2-factor authentication still an option and not mandatory…when will they learn?
Meanwhile, hours after the news thousands of players are force kicked from all Division 2 Servers without reason. Maybe, just a sanity check from the providers.
Today, I finally came out of my mental hibernation with slight flurries of getting back to my old self. Life will never be same again but I’ve re-started documenting my cognitive Post Pandemic journey. A regular online meeting helped to boast my purpose. Preparation was key.
Post meeting [Must do items] – take a break and then follow up with action points and timelines
Returning to Division 2 after the blanket ban is annoying but at least I had some fundamental loot to recreate a rifle and healer build. An empty friends list and cautious game-play…just re-organizing, optimizing and deleting gear took 2 hours. Anyhow, no looking back now as mistakes were clearly made.
