| ▲ | butz 6 hours ago |
| Nice to see anti-cheats working and protecting Linux players from hacks, by preventing them from actually playing the game. |
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| ▲ | cedws 38 minutes ago | parent | next [-] |
| Games using Easy AntiCheat can opt in to Linux support. Arc Raiders runs on Linux (but not in VMs) whereas Fortnite does not, because Epic has chosen not to support Linux. Ironic given Tim Sweeney's supposed anti-monopoly stance. |
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| ▲ | Thaxll 36 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| This hack has nothing to do with client cheats. |
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| ▲ | sylware an hour ago | parent | prev [-] |
| "kernel anti-cheat" is actually a re-branding of "anti-(non steamdeck)-linux" software, probably to please msft (since sole beneficiary). We all know they are inefficient and weaponized by hackers. You know on linux there is a feature for a process to snoop into another process, that for the same user (non root), can be use for anti-tampering: with a proper "security" team, as all live-service games should have, you can give hell to hackers without a kernel module... |
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| ▲ | Thaxll 31 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | Kernel anti cheat in the client are the strongest form of protection by far, your comment makes no sense, anything userspace is easily spoofed. You can create a driver ( module ) that intercept calls and that is completely invisible to userspace processes. The default security measures on Linux are pretty bad compared to windows, it's not even close. People like to bash windows but they have a way better security model. | | |
| ▲ | sylware 20 minutes ago | parent [-] | | 1 - kernel module from anti-cheats are weaponized by hackers. 2 - if I recall properly, that linux feature is a direct mapping of the target user process allowing extreme dynamicity in time, performant, and much more powerfull mechanisms than basic 'calls'. Namely hell for hackers if a live service game has a proper "security" team, all that without a kernel module. |
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| ▲ | firtoz 42 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | How trivial is it to pretend to be a steam deck? | | |
| ▲ | jdubs1984 37 minutes ago | parent [-] | | In what context? To show up at work and convince everyone you’re a steam deck? Thats probably pretty difficult. | | |
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| ▲ | well_ackshually 24 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | | [dead] |
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