Riot is owned by Tencent. Coincidence?
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"linux does not allow us a good enough ability to confirm boot state"
Skill issue, L for riot games.
Realistically, if this is true, it's because of security. Shocker on that one really. Also, there are probably only 800 players on linux because the anti cheat doesnt fucking work. But that doesnt count apparently
Skill issue, L for riot games.
I'm no expert here, but couldn't they rely on SEV/SME or similar? My understanding is those features encrypt RAM, which would make it a lot more difficult for an attacker to do memory-based attacks when the game is running within a VM. I expect "physical attacks" would include attacking a VM's memory, but again, I'm not an expert.
I also wonder if this could work in a containerized environment instead of a VM, so players could just run a lightweight container and preserve direct access to resources like the GPU. I don't know if GPU access can be required to be encrypted as well, but surely this is a massive step forward.
i have no clue myself frankly. Realistically, doing literally anything is probably going to be better than what riot claims is possible. I think a fundamental part of the problem is stuff outside the control of the game, the OS already has segmented ram for instance, it's all supposed to be virtually privatized, that way you don't get these kinds of problems On the fly encryption would probably help, though they would probably just use shitty encryption anyway. Regardless, if you get something to hook into the game code itself, rather than just abusing memory values, it wouldn't matter. Because at that point it's going to be running inside the game.
Yeah I didn't know I could play it.
i was convinced that LOL didn't boot under linux, im still trying to figure out how they're getting these numbers.
Right?
I hear Dota is better anyways and I think it runs natively.
It runs but the Vulcan implementation is shit so you will have worse performance.
I just read from that: Other OSes are inferior and they won't tell their userbase. Cheapshots I guess.
I don't believe that only 800 people played on Linux. It makes no sense to me in the grand scheme of things. I have a personal YT channel with only 108 subs and my random low effort video on how to get League running on Steam Deck has almost 70k views which is nuts and there are many other much better videos than mine with many more views. If only 0.1% of those people are active players that would still make a lot more than "800" figure. I know this is just a random speculation but 800 is just waaaay too low.
The devil is in the details: 800 on a single day.
Those 70k views are probably people like me:
Want to try it and bounce violently off of the toxic ass community
So that 800 might actually be a believable number given you go through some hurdles just to get, well, LOL players
Good riddance, spent several years hooked to League. That being said, the fragmentation argument is bullshit, they could ship a read-only container in a flatpak and it'd run everywhere.
Kernel level is a huge risk and it doesn't guarantee anything, especially in the age of Ai cheats and network mitm cheats
You can't do shit with flatpak as a kernel level anti cheat.
That's the point. A read only container to keep low hanging fruit at bay, and flatpak to distribute without having to repackage to every distro under the sun.
I don't fuck with the game, the game doesn't fuck with my system.
That doesn't protect the game in any way, that's the issue. If you don't fuck with it, it doesn't mean that everyone else doesn't as well.
Their anti cheat rootkit doesn't protect the game either.
How do you know?
My main issue with this blog post is that rather than properly addressing concerns, they make fun of them.
It's not a rootkit, journalists just spread misinformation for clicks
Why is it not a rootkit, then??
I guess the difference is in whether or not the victim was complicit with installing spyware in the kernel.
because on windows it's not considered a rootkit, it's considered user obscured feature sets.
A blog toxic as it's community? Gasp.
A long while back riot used to be a fun sorta disruptive thing that was pretty healthy overall. It was awkward and fun. That was before it was purchased though. Now riot exists to make money for big china. It isn't that company anymore. It's a facade.
You can't fix it, nor can the employees.
Riot is a skinpuppet that has no autonomy. Unlike the employees though, we have the choice to leave that failing franchise and move on. Rootkits aren't acceptable and that needs to be the standard. It wasn't okay when Sony tried it in the name of anti-piracy and it's still not okay now. No person should be okay with installing a black box with greater admin rights than they have on their own machine. That is not okay. It is security heresy. That blog uses hand waving and bullshit to sell the concept to people that don't know any better. And honestly? That's almost just as bad as the rootkit itself.
A rough translation is:
Be a good drone and put the slave collar on. It's good for you. Don't ask questions, you don't need to know why. Just do it. You are the product and you have no rights.
I disagree that they went downhill post-purchase. They were shit from the very start when pendragon decided to burn one community to promote his own in the name of capitalism.
Because journalists.
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