• TheWilliamist@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    They won’t or can’t get their anti-cheat/DRM in as a kernel module. Would you trust that bunch of fucks to not screw something up terribly by trying to pop in something like that?

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        16 hours ago

        It is a potential security risk to the system and enables extremely intrusive control and surveillance.

        It’s basically a rootkit.

        • Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          13 hours ago

          They can’t even effectively prevent cheaters so I’m always suspicious what the real intent of these rootkits.

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          Yikes. I did not know that. I’m a Linux user but when it comes to talking about kernel stuff I’m like “what?”

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            Tldr kernel access is bad.

            You have a great personal reference point for this; you use Linux, and when have you ever needed kernel access regularly?

            What conceivable reason could a game dev have for wanting access to that?

            How could having that access be detrimental to your machines security?