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Bloodbath Ahead For EA As It Looks To Cut $700 Million In Annual Costs Under Saudi Arabia (kotaku.com)
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[–] 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Games are essentially attack vectors with kernal level access to your computer.

Some games, with very specific anticheat. Let's not spread misinformation.

That being said, yeah I don't get it either - I refused to play Valorant for this reason.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 week ago*

    All games with kernel level anticheat, that isnt't open souce.

    There, fixed it for you.

    Kernel level AC is literally a root kit, in some cases also a boot kit.

    It has never made any sense to allow this shit on your computer. Sorry if marketing convinced you otherwise.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago

    I mean even games without anti-cheat are attack vectors. Some 18 year old kid is going to prison because his game stole crypto.

    Also that's pretty much what I was explaining, I just assumed everyone already knows what I'm talking about. I wouldnt say its misinformation, just lazy short hand and me expecting the audience here to be caught up enough to know what I mean.

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