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Re:The issue of anti-cheat on Linux by dylan604 on Friday August 22, 2025 @07:53PM (#44991429)
Flip it. Run the games on bare metal with nothing on it but games and a VM. use the VM for your personal system.
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Re:The issue of anti-cheat on Linux by Hackbraten on Friday August 22, 2025 @09:23PM (#44992069)
That achieves nothing. A hypervisor can see and manipulate any VM it runs. By extension, a compromised kernel can do the same.
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Re:The issue of anti-cheat on Linux by QuaternionsBhop on Saturday August 23, 2025 @02:46AM (#44993834)
How about with homomorphic encryption?
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Re:The issue of anti-cheat on Linux by Hackbraten on Saturday August 23, 2025 @07:04AM (#44995059)
I’m not aware of any OS that supports it for this use case.
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Re:The issue of anti-cheat on Linux by charcircuit on Saturday August 23, 2025 @08:50AM (#44995625)
On Android this isn't true with support for protected virtual machines.
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