Re:Initial details about why CrowdStrike's CSAgent.sys crashed
by nullfrigid on Monday July 22, 2024 @09:47AM
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> If their game runs on my machine, then cheating is my prerrogative. v
Sure.
However, due to the nature of how these games work, cheating cannot be prevented serverside only.
So, if you want to play the game, you have to agree to install the anti-cheat because it's the only way to actually stop cheating.
The *only other alternative is to sell a separate category of gaming machines where users wouldn't have access to install cheats, using something like the TPM to enforce.
Re:Initial details about why CrowdStrike's CSAgent.sys crashed
by matheusmoreira on Tuesday July 23, 2024 @07:39PM
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I don't have to agree to a thing. They're the ones who should have to accept our freedom. We're not about to sacrifice our power and freedom for the sake of preventing cheating in video games. Not only are we going to play the games, we're going to impose some of our terms and conditions on these things.
> The anti-cheat software isn't actually a rootkit (despite what some people say); it can't affect any app that doesn't explicitly hook into it.
Out of all examples you could have cited, you chose this one.
https://www.theregister.com/2016/09/23/capcom_street_fighter...
https://twitter.com/TheWack0lian/status/779397840762245124
There you go. An anti-cheat rootkit so ineptly coded it serves as literal privilege escalation as a service. Can we stop normalizing this stuff already?
My computer is my computer, and your computer is your computer.
The game company owns their servers, not my computer. If their game runs on my machine, then cheating is my prerrogative. It is quite literally an exercise of my computer freedom if I decide to change the game's state to give myself infinite health or see through walls or whatever. It's not their business what software I run on my computer. I can do whatever I want.
It's my machine. I am the god of this domain. The game doesn't get to protect itself from me. It will bend to my will if I so decide. It doesn't have a choice in the matter. Anything that strips me of this divine power should be straight up illegal. I don't care what the consequences are for corporations, they should not get to usurp me. They don't get to create little extraterritorial islands in our domains where they have higher power and control than we do.
I don't try to own their servers and mess with the code running on them. They owe me the exact same respect in return.