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No, I rely on a bro from Riot Games to come round and lock me in, so they can be sure I won't go out at night and commit crimes.
Why are you booing him? He's right. I haven't played battlefield since battlefield 2. Every time I've installed the sequels it's filled with cheaters invisible running around in the sky at hyperspeed with rocketlaunchers and headshots fuck all that. I liked battlefield. If you tell me that all I need to do to negate the security concern of the kernel level anticheat is to run the dualboot windows partition im already running for games, why the fuck wouldn't I be satisfied with a kernel level anticheat if its keeping invisible skygods out of my team shooter?
I care about privacy but this guy says its a non-issue if you do a very small amount of work i've already done. Downvotes don't explain how he's wrong, and it makes intuitive sense that installing a kernel level anticheat would only affect the windows kernel it was installed on not the linux kernel on the other drive partition. like, i've got my graphene pixel phone i got on sale for privacy, and i've got a shitty little 'burner' phone for like banking apps and google maps. how is this significantly different? why can't I have my cake and eat it too? What's the point of cake if I can't eat it?
The intuition is incorrect as the kernel-level anticheats are not necessarily trusted. Operating systems interact with low-level hardware and firmware on the system. As such, it is not self-contained.
https://www.kaspersky.com/about/press-releases/more-elusive-and-more-persistent-the-third-known-firmware-bootkit-shows-major-advancement
There exists both UEFI bootkits and firmware implants. Its intuitive if you understand it like this: if there exists a communication pathway from (A) lower-privilege code -> (B) higher-privilege code, there exists the potential for vulnerabilities.
This is due to (A) now having an effect on the code execution for (B).