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  • Don’t be ignorant. That isnt what this is at all. It’s not like the game has more access, it’s actually less. They’re just enforcing hardware attestation.

    Basically just the motherboard saying, (cryptographically) yes as far as I know, the kernel and system running are secure and weren’t modified. And in this case they found a bad bug in that system, and next year they may start requiring people update their motherboard firmware to a version that doesn’t have the bug.

    So this, is not a root kit, and does not grant them “bios access” they want to be unable to modify the BIOS / OS at boot just as much as they want cheaters to be unable to do that. It’s the same as the general cryptography paradigm, there is no secure backdoor to cryptography, and it’s the same here. If RIOT had access to the UEFI (BIOS), cheaters have access to it. They’re just leveraging an entirely safe attestation from the UEFI to say it is secure.

    And to add to this, finding this bug is pushing UEFI security forward, and therefore anyone with an impacted motherboard. Bugs like this can be quite a big security vulnerability and implicate methods for malware to persist themselves inside the motherboard BIOS, or other shitty things you don’t want, and that are worse than the ‘Vanguard rootkit’





  • I mean re read my comment. That’s a huge stretch to say that I am implying PC master race by what I said. I was responding to a comment about PCs, yes, but:

    IMO they want to take away people owning their hardware period. Whether that be console or PC. If they can’t make it into a subscription where you own nothing and rent everything… To them, there’s what it is today and what they’re working towards. Hence, HaaS.

    And the memory market for consumers is going to have knock on affects to consoles, raspberry pis, Nintendo switches, etc…


  • Yeah I mean clickbait titles gonna clickbait. Linux is great and steamos / proton are amazing. It’s incredible how well they do perform, but let’s not get ahead of ourselves lol.

    Flip side, we are comparing a free and superior OS to windows, so I guess if you add up all the other things (assuming you like Linux) this is truly a RIP windows moment, but it depends on the audience. I.e. I’m happy to trade a few FPS to be free of Windows, but not necessarily all the AAA games, yet.