{"id":493704,"date":"2010-03-31T11:37:06","date_gmt":"2010-03-31T15:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10003936"},"modified":"2010-03-31T11:37:39","modified_gmt":"2010-03-31T15:37:39","slug":"erotic-japanese-game-cross-days-tricks-pirates-into-posting-personal-info-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/493704","title":{"rendered":"Erotic Japanese Game “Cross Days” Tricks Pirates Into Posting Personal Info Online"},"content":{"rendered":"

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If you’re trying to pirate the Japanese erotic manga game Cross Days–and I don’t care what people say, I love that I live in a world where I can type that phrase–you should know that the game’s developers are wise to you, and they’re going to do their best to shame and embarrass you. <\/p>\n

According to Japanator.com<\/a>, game installers floating around Japanese P2P networks come loaded with the digital version of a social disease, a trojan that “gathers data from the computer and pretends to take a survey of players, including asking for personal information.” Then it uploads this information and a screenshot of the person’s desktop to a public website (slightly NSFW)<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The fake installer seems specific to Japan; I’m not sure any company would risk the class-action lawsuit smackdown that would happen in the U.S., at least not after Sony’s rootkit fiasco<\/a> a few years back.<\/p>\n

“Wait, pirates! That Cross Days download is a trap!”<\/a> [Japanator via Destructoid<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you’re trying to pirate the Japanese erotic manga game Cross Days–and I don’t care what people say, I love that I live in a world where I can type that phrase–you should know that the game’s developers are wise to you, and they’re going to do their best to shame and embarrass you. According […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4310,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-493704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4310"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}