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[–] [email protected] 50 points 10 months ago (2 children)

So .. do we have any evidence that rootkits actually decrease the amount of cheating? Like... At all?

[–] [email protected] 45 points 10 months ago (2 children)

The awnser is a firm no. Cheaters have moved to hardware based cheats with DMA boards. On valorant some cheaters have started exploiting remote play services to use machine vision based aim bots. Neither of those two methods can be detected by a kernel level anti cheat.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

And now they have more fun working with hardware than software. No needing to reverse engineer the game either since you're just processing display output and executing inputs on separate hardware like an Arduino or Raspberry Pi

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

With DMA based cheats I disagree as if you were developing a DMA based cheat you would still need to understand how the game works so you can figure out what memory adresses are for what part of the game.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You're assuming the anti cheat won't refuse to run if a DMA device is installed.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

Pfft... that's easy to solve. Just ask them to identify all the fire hydrants.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago (1 children)

it totally decreases the amount of cheating by a lot. Like the biggest decrease in history. That's right. It's huge. /trumpvoice

Also

trust me bro

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I wouldn't trust you if you were a valid SSL cert, bro

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Come oooon. I'm google.com. really! Would I lie to you?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If you're google.com, then yes. But then that would mean you are not google.com, which would mean you are google.com.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

It's a good thing Google isn't based on Athens. That would have amplified the logic bomb tremendously!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Nah, you wouldn't! Sorry, mate!

But... Uh... Do you really need all this credit card data and my banking password to show me more accurate search results? Sounds like a pretty convoluted tech to me... Well, who am I to question Google, right? There you go.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Prove it with your dnssec record otherwise I shall consider you a liar.