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Today, we'll be looking at the Flight Sim Labs malware scandal, that occurred back in February of 2018, and cropped back up later in May, after the fact.

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Users found out that the Airbus A320X Flight Sim Labs model contained a Chrome Password Dump renamed 'test.exe', which alarmed many customers. We'll discuss how their 'attack' worked, it's implications, and how the DRM undermined the rights of the players. The FSL malware scandal was a huge issue overall, and shows how far companies will go to protect their IP.

This video is aimed at covering the facts of the scandal and its implications, and is not intended to 'bury' or 'damage' Flight Sim Labs in any way, shape, or form.

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After the Fact
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After the Fact is a series covering many scandals and events that occurred throughout the life of the video game industry. It focuses on security, technology, and consumer rights, and highlights examples of game design gone wrong in hopes of history not repeating itself.

Flight Sim Labs
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A company made up of passionate flight simmers, we specialise in creating the highest-quality, most immersive add-on products and services available for the Microsoft Flight Simulator and Lockheed Martin Prepar3D families.

From the highly-acclaimed Concorde-X – the most complete Concorde aircraft simulation ever to be produced for a desktop flight simulator – to the ground-breaking flagship A320-X, the first truly realistic Airbus add-on in the desktop simulation environment, we pride ourselves in pioneering advancement in both systems fidelity and visual effects.

-- From the Flight Sim Labs Ltd. Page at: https://www.flightsimlabs.com/index.php/about-us/