rayman 2 mods, programming crimes in C, reverse engineering, etc.
"This is a strange Debug Warning" ~ ubisoft 1997
"third party anti-cheat kernel driver" should strike the same kind of fear in you as "debug port left exposed" or "default root telnet password"
there should be no business sense for MS to sign these; they should not be signed, signing them should result in fines and sanctions, and the OS already doesn't load unsigned kernel drivers.
this shit should, honestly, be illegal through and through.
WOW WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT INSTALLING LITERAL ROOTKITS FOR DRM/ANTICHEAT IS A BAD IDEA
they don't even help, because players have physical access to their computers lmfao
from a security standpoint, it's already joever
I mean, anti-cheat is like safes - they're never impossible to unlock by someone unauthorised, it's a matter of making it as hard as possible to do so.
But then, having a titanium safe does not install a backdoor in your damn house. There are no promises that anti-cheat makers could give to make it feel secure (that is, not having a damn hole in kernel level software) - if anyone ever was able to make 100% unexploitable software, anti-cheat wouldn't have to exist.
I feel the best way of handling it is server-side sanity checking and bringing back vote kicking
having everyone physically be in the same room would also help. people don't tend to cheat when they're within punching distance
this tbh. there's all these dingus dongles for thunderbolt, PCIe and even firewire, to poke arbitrary memory over DMA in a way that's almost completely undetectable. a veritable hacker's dozen of 'em
i remember the whole vrchat eac fiasco like it was just last week. now i understand what that warning was for. the day has finally come to switch to chilloutvr (/hj)
Every time I remember how many different vendors have signed InpOut32.sys and InpOutx64.sys I die a little
crikey is that what I think it is
edit: whatever I thought it was, it's worse than that.
tl;dr: x86 I/O port level access to any unprivileged program. yes that includes superio, vesa, and BIOS, PCI, ISAPNP config space, and so on.
And if you have a Windows computer you may just find you have it installed unexpectedly! Lots of stuff bundles it because they're too lazy to write a proper driver for the narrow case they want.
Oh my God, another person actually agrees with me that anti-cheat solutions that burrow themselves into the kernel are a major security risk. Finally!
sadly Gamers™ seem to have this philosophy of "security at any cost" where "security" means "cops, computer cops, in your computer"
Huh? "Keep intrusive bullshit off my computer" is like, the one thing gamer-ass-gamers are typically on the right side of. Sure they'll still play the games anyway, but when it comes to steam reviews and reddit posts gamer spaces are generally hostile to this stuff almost to a fault
Only the people playing the games that already have it, people playing other games see any sign of cheating and start begging for more invasive anticheat thinking it will actually fix things (it doesn’t, though).
