Comment on Good News! EA Is Expanding Its Anti-Cheat to ARM64, and Linux Could Be Next

• scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨17⁩ ⁨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.

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  • Dojan@pawb.social ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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.

    Is it? I’m personally OK with the Trump dynasty and Saudis not fiddling anything of mine, or honestly anything at all.

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  • OwOarchist@pawb.social ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s an assumption that because they use the kernel in Windows that they’re going to do the same in Linux.

    If they don’t, then it would be easy to do undetectable cheats using a Linux PC with kernel-level cheats.

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    • Cassa@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      no. They could do server-side anti-cheats 🤷 it’s hard, but not that hard. they just prefer to get backdoor access to computers. stop spreading their propaganda

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    • scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      There are multiple solutions to this problem, and one job posting does not mean they are suddenly forcing changes into the linux kernel, the kernel that literally runs the entire internet, countless businesses, and governments to prevent cheating.

      The facts are that we have a single job posting from EA where they want to investigate how it could be done.

      There is a best case and a worst case scenario, with so many thousands of options in between. Immediately assuming the worst case here isn’t doing anything. All probability says it will probably be something in the middle.

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      • OwOarchist@pawb.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        suddenly forcing changes into the linux kernel, the kernel that literally runs the entire internet, countless businesses, and governments

        Of course that would never happen.

        They’d just require some ‘EA anti-cheat’ kernel module to be present, or their game will refuse to run. So you’d have to install and activate that module in order to play their game. But there would be no need to modify any computer that doesn’t play their game … so as long as you’re not trying to play games on your internet server, the server is safe.

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• Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  IIRC EAC is also usually called kernel-level AC. It isn’t on Linux though.

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