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Steam games will now need to fully disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages (www.gamingonlinux.com)

submitted 9 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Now if only they could more clearly communicate when games are playable offline.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

Making it super simple, it runs with full access on your machine, always. It can fuck anything up, and see everything. It can get your browser history, banking details or private messages you enter, activate your webcam or mic without you knowing, or brick your computer even.

And you can't even check what it's really doing on your computer because it's a crime under US law.

Finally, it can get hacked and other people than the creator can do all these to your computer as well,as it already happened once.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

And you can't even check what it's really doing on your computer because it's a crime under US law.

Is this specifically for kernel level anticheat? Because this isn't a thing for software in general right??