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

• Cassa@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨21⁩ ⁨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 ⁨20⁩ ⁨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 ⁨16⁩ ⁨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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    • scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Sounds like maybe you should apply

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      • OwOarchist@pawb.social ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I am in no way qualified to be writing kernel modules!

        Hm… Which means I’m perfectly qualified to work at EA! I should apply!

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