Hacking into Kernel Anti-Cheats: How cheaters bypass Faceit, ESEA and Vanguard anti-cheats
Hacking into Kernel Anti-Cheats: How cheaters bypass Faceit, ESEA and Vanguard anti-cheats
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I'm not making an accusation, it's kernel-level access. If I know where you live, have keys to your house, know your security code, can change anything in your home without you knowing, that's a problem.
Why are you so dead-set on defending a company's bad practices just because you like their game?
I'm dead set on playing online games without cheaters. If Vanguard worked on Linux, half of this community wouldn't care and wouldn't rely on a fallacy of assuming it will be turned into malware.
As for kernel level access to the machine... Oh no, just like the third party driver I had to install on Linux to use my Xbox adapter? Crazy! That must be malware!
Yup, so you don't care. Lmao you literally gave away the key to your house for an uninteresting video game. Pitiful.
Ah yes, Riot is desperate for your nudes. They'll pretend to be a gaming company with international tournaments for years, but in the end you'll be correct and I'll be wrong and they'll use Vanguard to... Steal my cat memes, turn on my webcam and hack into my local library and warn them I'm late to return some books. The tragedy.
Some of us wouldn't proudly admit to doing nothing with their time, but here we are.
I've got important stuff on my personal machine, and it's the principal of the thing, besides. Good luck to you, I suppose.
Fuck you
If Vanguard keeps somebody only capable of replying with "Fuck you" out of the game, that's actually fantastic - it's an anticheat and antiweirdo software. I hope they expand it to more games.
I hope they use your PC as a botnet and steal your bank account some day when China has enough of us.
@kadu @RubberElectrons It seems you don't understand how independent opinions in a democracy are made. It's about privacy and the right for it. No company has the right to snuff in my life and collect private data. Everyone has secrets.
@kadu @RubberElectrons It doesn't have to be the company itself.
Imagine the unimaginable scenario where a group of hackers gains access to the company's network and servers and plants a malicious patch to be sent in the next update.
I wouldn't be afraid of the company exploiting this. I would be afraid that a bug or hacker can do whatever with my computer because I gave this software root access, and it gets remotely updated, has network access and can become an amazing tool in the wrong hands.Imagine the unimaginable scenario where a group of hackers gains access to the company’s network and servers and plants a malicious patch to be sent in the next update.
Then don't use computers, there have been multiple full root access zero days on Linux, Windows, Mac, Android and iOS in 2023 alone.
@kadu Duh, but leaving my front door open is really unnecessary.
I mean you do you. Thankfully I don't care :D
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You're definitely not getting through to paranoid lemmy users lol
I'm dead set on playing online games without cheaters.
Then you should've stopped playing when you encountered the first cheater. The one that you knew was a cheater, at least.
Things like this create false sense of safety where you assume the game has less cheaters but in reality you can hardly tell.
Xbox should be plug an play. Everythig is open and viewable so you can see the malware if there is any.
Otherwise show me the driver to prove me wrong.