Comment on Good News! EA Is Expanding Its Anti-Cheat to ARM64, and Linux Could Be Next
Cassa@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 hours ago
ah. kernel-level means fuck off.
ew. get better server-level protection. stop being lazy
Comment on Good News! EA Is Expanding Its Anti-Cheat to ARM64, and Linux Could Be Next
Cassa@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 hours ago
ah. kernel-level means fuck off.
ew. get better server-level protection. stop being lazy
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 20 hours ago
Literally no where does it say they’re attempting to modify the kernel.
Cassa@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 hours ago
“Javelin, their kernel-level anti-cheat”
this. this right here. kernel-level = bad.
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 20 hours ago
It’s an assumption that because they use the kernel in Windows that they’re going to do the same in Linux. It’s not feasible for them to. Even if they did somehow convince all the maintainers that they deserve kernel access (and let’s remember we’re in a post-crowdstrike world and they’re messing with the same kernel base code that runs all containers and servers out there supporting the entire internet), they would still need to take into account that people can just fork the kernel and compile their own.
This is one single job posting where they are investigating how they could do it. Don’t be so quick to grab the pitchforks.
If a company the size of EA is willing to consider that Linux might be worth supporting, that’s legit a huge win for us. The power of the open source kernel will keep everything else in check.
Dojan@pawb.social 17 hours ago
Is it? I’m personally OK with the Trump dynasty and Saudis not fiddling anything of mine, or honestly anything at all.
OwOarchist@pawb.social 20 hours ago
If they don’t, then it would be easy to do undetectable cheats using a Linux PC with kernel-level cheats.
Cethin@lemmy.zip 15 hours ago
IIRC EAC is also usually called kernel-level AC. It isn’t on Linux though.