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1. 2OEH8eoCRo0 · 1790945910 · focus · HN ↗

   When did video games get so serious that we need to do these things? Ridiculous.

   1. orbital-decay · 1790954138 · focus · HN ↗

      Anticheats started moving into ring0 and became rootkits in early 2000s with nProtect GameGuard, HWID checks started in mid-2000s with myAC (or even earlier? I think myAC first appeared during CS 1.5).

      1. tadfisher · 1790960433 · focus · HN ↗

         Those were easily worked around with unsigned drivers or physical hardware. Now Secure Boot is required to run Valorant games, which should be a harbinger for what will happen to your online banking experience if consumers allow this to continue.

         1. orbital-decay · 1790962269 · focus · HN ↗

            Yeah that's why I stopped playing and hosting those games, ESEA Bitcoin mining scandal made me buy a physically isolated gaming machine with constant monitoring, and VM banning in EFT was the last drop. Valorant is the most paranoid and the biggest offender, but the others are close.

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