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Re:The issue of anti-cheat on Linux by Retr0id on Friday August 22, 2025 @02:40PM (#44988176)
- and, by design, is resistant to auditing, analysis, or user-modification
Re:The issue of anti-cheat on Linux by gjsman-1000 on Friday August 22, 2025 @02:50PM (#44988315)
If you trust Microsoft with your OS; I suppose you should trust Microsoft when they sign kernel modules, right? ;)
Re:The issue of anti-cheat on Linux by ACCount37 on Friday August 22, 2025 @06:16PM (#44990528)
It's a good thing that Microsoft has never signed an anticheat kernel module that turned out to be so vulnerable that some malware installed it on purpose to gain more system access.
Re:The issue of anti-cheat on Linux by internetter on Friday August 22, 2025 @07:07PM (#44991019)
Re:The issue of anti-cheat on Linux by dylan604 on Friday August 22, 2025 @08:02PM (#44991511)
Thanks for the link. I read the GP's comment, and was thinking that was an ballsy if not hilarious move on the hacker's part. Your link saved me the trouble of searching. I'm not a gamer, so I don't keep up with these details. Whether you like it or not, the cheat devs are definitely HN level types