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Re:Rainbow Six Siege Hacked as Players Get Billions of Credi... by Aurornis on Sunday December 28, 2025 @09:58AM (#46411507)
These changes are occurring in a server backend database. They’re not client side cheats.

The people receiving the credits aren’t even the ones initiating the changes.

Also many anti-cheat packages do have Linux versions. The primary reason you’re not getting ports for Linux is because companies don’t want to do the port and support all versions of Linux clients they would encounter in the very tiny number of additional installs.

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Re:Rainbow Six Siege Hacked as Players Get Billions of Credi... by netbioserror on Sunday December 28, 2025 @11:54AM (#46412415)
Proton is a single build target, and it's just the Windows build target.
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Re:Rainbow Six Siege Hacked as Players Get Billions of Credi... by reactordev on Sunday December 28, 2025 @01:23PM (#46413229)
Exactly, this argument wasn’t a good one 10 years ago and it definitely isn’t one now.
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Re:Rainbow Six Siege Hacked as Players Get Billions of Credi... by tpxl on Sunday December 28, 2025 @01:34PM (#46413294)
Valve maintains a 'Steam Runtime', which is similar to a docker container, to ensure it's easy to develop games that run on many distributions.
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Re:Rainbow Six Siege Hacked as Players Get Billions of Credi... by mschuster91 on Sunday December 28, 2025 @02:20PM (#46413631)
The problem is kernel level cheats, can't defend against those from pure userland.
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Re:Rainbow Six Siege Hacked as Players Get Billions of Credi... by seba_dos1 on Sunday December 28, 2025 @02:29PM (#46413699)
Soon: The problem is DMA level cheats, can't defend against those from the kernel.
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Re:Rainbow Six Siege Hacked as Players Get Billions of Credi... by jetbalsa on Sunday December 28, 2025 @03:03PM (#46413979)
Oh those are already here, Its why Battlefield needs Secureboot turned on so it can use the IOMMU to protect the game kinda
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