miwohonestly you have to be fucking retarded to hate/boycott esea now.
what the fuck are you doing in your bios and kernel and shit that somehow is just now an awful privacy violation? are you worried that kane is gonna steal your naked anime pics and bank passwords that are stored on your motherboard bios?
HOW many programs on your computer do you have installed that you havent compiled from source yourself and checked against the public MD5???? cause they all could, potentially, POTENTIALLY, go full blown stuxnet matrix on your ass and fuckin mix up all your files, 0 out your hard drive, and send your school homework over the net to a server in a abandoned stalin-era steel factory in the caucasus.
and if your job requires you to have confidential files, national security secrets, or HIPAA protected documents on your HOME COMPUTER, that you play tf2 and watch porn on, you work for someone who doesn't know what the fuck they're doing with regards to data security and your organization will probably go under by now because they can't afford to give their employees a company lenovo thinkpad.
PLEASE, by ALL MEANS, continue getting upset at every fresh lpkane post. i'm sure he is enjoying trolling the ever loving fuck out of the entirety of esea open and like half of IM.
everyone, EVERY SINGLE PERSON, who is "concerned about software privacy" had better be running tf2 on Arch linux with a framed, RMS signed poster print of a wildebeest on the wall in front of your PC.
Or else, you are fuckin dumb.
Hey this is some grade-A bullshit
Security is a sliding scale, a tradeoff between being secure and being practical/usable. For example, it's not practical or possible to compile every program yourself and check against a public md5, but you can be reasonably sure about the programs you run by only downloading from trusted, reputable sources, and by limiting the program to the minimum level of privilege it needs. You don't have to run arch and have a neckbeard to be secure. Downloading and running steam from the official steam website is reasonably secure. Downloading and running naked_girl_pic.exe from an obscure porn website is not.
Likewise, taking a program from a company known to have a history of poor security practices (passwords in plaintext), poor accountability (from earlier), and has actually installed malicious software in the past (BITCOINS AYY), and then giving this program kernel mode access to your computer 24/7 (Literally the highest privilege level possible) would generally be considered to be "fuckin dumb."
I understand that the TF2 community has pretty much no choice but to deal with it, but belittling people for being concerned about the security implications is quite fucked up. Anybody with no investment in tf2 would pretty much agree that trusting this client would be a terrible idea.