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Plot twist: Theres still hackers in multiplayer even with all that crap plus rootkit they bundle with.
Nice that steam tells you so you don't have to waste the bandwidth before refunding it.
Its gonna be really funny in a few years when we learn that TPM2 / Windows' Specific Implementation of SecureBoot has a backdoor for the NSA, just like how the Kinect did.
And uh, no, it doesn't matter if this happens intentionally via collaboration, or not, through incompetence.
Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
Turns out my ribs don't actually care whether the boot that cracked them came from a decisive kick or because someone clumsily tripped over me.
(Also sufficiently advanced malice is often indistinguishable from incompetence by design: "oops we didn't mean to, please forgive us and we pRoMiSe we won't ~~get caught~~ do it again!")
Yep, that last part is ... basically the most important concept of running a large organization, if you're a corpo/evil bureaucrat.
The obfuscation is the point.
The 'I thought I was in compliance' is the point.
The 'this is too complex to assign blame simply'...
That is the fucking point, of designing and running a system that works in that way.
weaponized incompetence exists at basically all levels of human interaction, alas...
but it's especially shitty when corpos do it.
I really wish we'd stop fucking around and make executives regret what the people they are literally responsible for do. Their monetary compensation should be consummate with consequences--if they're making three thousand times the amount of their front-facing employees they should be three thousand times more culpable for the shit their organization pulls.
says horrifying thing
waits for reaction
If positive reaction: all good.
If negative reaction: "Calm down, it was just a joke."
Ergh this made feel kinda icky, I now want to unplug my 360 from the wall when I'm not using it even though I know the chance of them actually watching me is little more than paranoia
The NSA has something like the 5th or 6th largest data center in existance, its been around for about a decade, in Utah.
They just capture everything, they have wiretaps on all the trunk lines that feed into undersea cables going international, they work with every major ISP, basically every major city in the US has a building where there are a bunch of floors for major ISPs/TelComms, and a bunch of floors for DHS, FBI, NSA, (Not the) CIA, etc, where those trunk lines come in.
For over a decade now, the problem is that they have so much data that they don't know what to do with it, how to search through efficiently.
Or, well, that was their problem.
Enter Palantir, whose intial early whole thing as a company was developing ways to prioritizes and rapidly search through astounding amounts of data.
... You aren't paranoid enough.
If it makes you feel better, when Elon and his idiot DOGE crew did their thing earlier this year, they probably compromised, amongst many other Federal databases... SIPRNet, the superuberduper classified comm system the military uses for the most sensitive realtime digital comms.
Yeah they just fucking got a log in and then opened a shitty remote portal so they could get into it from wherever, as opposed to, you know, a secure site.
Chinese and Russian IPs were nearly instantly seen trying to barge their way in, and frankly, I think they managed to.
Just play an indie game, these games will only enshittify more and more.
Exactly, and you'll save tons of money too. ETS2 goes on sale for $5, stardew valley for $7.50, vintage story doesn't go on sale but it's only $22. All games that are way more fun, way less buggy, and have way more replay value than every piece of triple a junk i've played
What game? Name and shame!
Call of Duty Black Ops 7 https://store.steampowered.com/app/3606480/Call_of_Duty_Black_Ops_7
"Uses Kernel Level Anti-Cheat RICOCHET Anti-Cheat Boot Protection - Requires both Secure Boot & TPM 2.0"
Battlefield 6 https://store.steampowered.com/app/2807960/Battlefield_6
"Uses Kernel Level Anti-Cheat EA Javelin Anticheat - Requires manual removal after game uninstall Boot Protection - Requires both Secure Boot & TPM 2.0"
Just dont fucking play those games. Simple.
Which is so ridiculously easy in my head. But then I see like 4 million people playing and I'm wondering... Am I the crazy one?
When i see that many idiots being duped it just makes me feel superior~!
>:3c
Joking aside, look at how foolish the median person is. That they are average means that literally half of humanity is even more foolish than they are.
Quantity may be a quality all its own but in light of such damning disqualifications it hardly matters at all.
What game is it? Name and shame.
Black Ops 7. Its got plenty of shaming going on for other reasons already but this is the first time ive seen this message.
Those "features" are not about security. They're about uniquely identifying the system without using, "personally identifiable information".
Lmfao at this one dude literally losing his shit and defending this repeatedly in the comments like a fucking Microsoft white knight
And there always will be cheaters. If running a cheat on the local machine doesn't work anymore, there is nothing stopping someone hooking up an SoC running a inference model analysing your screen and sending inputs to an usb-dongle that emulates mouse input. Can probably be Mass manufactured cheaper than those inflated price tags on those games.
Yeah I dont need to play any game that requires me to allow spyware.
There are so many good indie and older games these days too.
I just won't play such games. Simple as.
What game is this? so I know what company to never buy from again.
Battlefield 6 by EA, which is now privately owned by the Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund, Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners
You mean if I play EA games I will be supporting a murderous regime that engaged in the largest terrorist attack on US soil resulting in the massive loss of our rights?
Oh darn, I guess I won't be missing much.
Call Of Duty Black Ops 7, however im hearing Battlefield 6 is also in the same boat.
Welp, doesn't run in proton. Next on the list...
Welp, vote with your wallet. Money is the only thing these companies understand.
the problem is that the overwhelming majority of gamers are short sighted little gremlins who need constant access to new shiny to feel validated.
Sure, they come on the internet to yell and scream about the horrid injustice of it all, but the second the vile evil company that they'll never again support releases their next game.. they are at gamestop preordering the 800 dollar super legendary edition.
There are people who actually do follow through, I am one of them.. There are several companies on my shit list that I will never buy from again, and in over a decade have not bought from them. . . but people that actually follow through on it are too rare to make a difference.
I hate the idea of software/hardware that can prove that the user does not have control over it so much
Way I see it, there’s two ways to address the “cheating” issue in multiplayer online games.
First, let’s establish that game cheats typically involve using another application to modify the game’s running code while it is loaded in memory.
Historically, anti-cheat has largely taken a “reactive” approach. Try to detect the hook / modification taking place, ban the player if it is detected. These systems and bans were often circumvented. There are entire games that I stopped playing because the experience was ruined for me - GTA Online and the late stages of Titanfall 2 are standouts in my mind.
With how the Windows device security landscape has changed In the 2020s (MacOS has had something similar for ages), there’s now the option of taking a “proactive” approach by preventing application memory from being tapped in the first place. These technologies, notably Secure Boot and TPM, help mitigate rootkits and malware that might steal sensitive information from application memory, as well as paving the way for other protection measures like disk encryption.
And that’s the main part they’re interested in - by ensuring the entire process up through the kernel cannot be tampered with, the anti-cheat is going to be highly effective at pre-empting anyone from attempting the cheat to begin with.
It really sucks that, in the curent landscape, that means there are a handful of games that I can’t play on my Linux devices. But it also makes sense - Proton runs with many layers beneath it, which would make it trivial to tamper with memory and engage in cheating.
I’m hopeful that we’ll someday see a solution that opens up the opportunity for the same degree of integrity protection in Linux so that anyone can enjoy any game on the operating system of their choosing.
Regardless of what others have to say about EA or the franchise (and boy do they have their issues), Battlefield has always been a beloved series for me. I’m having a blast in Battlefield 6 and I have yet to encounter any cheaters. Previous entries in the series would see me hopping to a new server whenever I encountered one or, on some occasions, ending my play session out of frustration. Anecdotally, the cheating felt much more prevalent before.
I have a lot less time to game than I used to, so that time is sacred to me. While I’d obviously prefer another way, maintaining a Windows system and enabling two BIOS settings (well, leaving them enabled - they’re on by default) has been worth it for me.
That's a false dichotomy though. There are ways to prevent cheating that don't rely on the security of the client against the owner of the device on which the client runs (which is what both of what your 'ways' are).
For one thing, it has long been a principle of good security to validate things on the server in a client-server application (which most multi-player games are). If they followed the principle of not sending data to a client that the user is not allowed to see, and not trusting the client (for example, by doing server-side validation, even after the fact, for things which are not allowed according to the rules of the game), they could make it so it is impossible to cheat by modifying the client, even if the client was F/L/OSS.
If they really can't do that (because their game design relies on low latency revelation of information, and their content distribution strategy doesn't cut it), they can also use statistical server-side cheat detection. For example, suppose that a player shoots within less than the realistic human reaction time of turning the corner when an enemy is present X out of Y times, but only A out of B times when no enemy is present. It is possible to calculate a p-value for X/Y - A/B (i.e. the probability of such an extreme difference given the player is not cheating). After correcting for multiple comparisons (due to multiple tests over time), it is possible to block cheaters without an unacceptable chance of false positives.
Effectively doing that server-side would substantially increase the bandwidth requirements though.
If we take wallhacks as an example, that takes place entirely in the local rendering pipeline. In a game like Battlefield or Counter Strike, smoke and foliage are used for tactical purposes.
Aimbots read player location data sent from the server and send input commands to the OS to automate headshots.
Preventing local memory from being read and modified outright prevents (well, substantially raises the skill ceiling) for performing these kinds of hacks. I have a hard time envisioning a server-side solution to those.
security of the client against the owner of the device on which the client runs
That’s exactly who a cheater is though
That's why even I was on Windows, I would avoid Kernel level anticheat.
I know anticheat is important but I wish there was ways to prevent cheaters without running stuff in lower rings.