• Empricorn@feddit.nl
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      1 year ago

      You don’t mind giving up your privacy and system security to a company for a single game?

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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?

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              Yup, so you don’t care. Lmao you literally gave away the key to your house for an uninteresting video game. Pitiful.

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                  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.

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                  I hope they use your PC as a botnet and steal your bank account some day when China has enough of us.

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                  @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.

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                  @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.

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              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.

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              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.

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      Not only can it be bypassed, but anti cheat with kernel level access can be used to distribute malware or spyware if it is compromised. Whether your personal anecdotes reflect the actual statistics or not, these anti cheats are dangerous and are not impenetrable.

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          Honestly a few cheaters in a game is way less of a problem than letting a company, especially one owned by tencent, have root access to my pc. Anyway in my experience with league the cheaters are either mostly nonexistent or subtle enough that it doesn’t impact the games. Also nobody in here’s going to have a rank that’s actually important and I don’t see why they can’t have the fun anticheat in tournaments and ranked but leave it out of the other things.

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      Man if the only way to break the condom was with the expensive DMA cheat and shit like that I could agree with your logic but a $10 arduino and 2min google search is enough.

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      My sweet summer child, I will see you in 5 years when Valorant cheating is as bad as CS:GO cheating at its peak.

      Kernel AC circumventation will only improve, as there’s many cheaters putting money in this technology. In 5 years this stuff will be commonplace and mean that these solutions will be ineffective.