Re:The issue of anti-cheat on Linux
by Retr0id on Friday August 22, 2025 @02:40PM
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- and, by design, is resistant to auditing, analysis, or user-modification
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Re:The issue of anti-cheat on Linux
by gjsman-1000 on Friday August 22, 2025 @02:50PM
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If you trust Microsoft with your OS; I suppose you should trust Microsoft when they sign kernel modules, right? ;)
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
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for the lucky 10000: https://www.trendmicro.com/en_us/research/22/h/ransomware-ac...
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