9mo ago

Steam games will now need to fully disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages

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I am dreading the day Gaben leaves Valve.
- The day it goes public is the day it dies.
- I really hope he has a good plan to pass the reigns to someone with the same integrity and philosophy.
  
  Or go coop
  
  Maybe he can pass it to an AI configured to uphold his ideals from beyond the grave?
- It is clear, we need more research into longevity, so he can become immortal.
  
  "God emperor Gabe, what should we do today?"
  "Go fight the Epic Games militia so we can defeat them once and for all."
  "Can we also work on Portal 3? It's the 100th anniversary of the franchise soon."
  "Three? What's that?"
FYI - the owner of this site, gamingonlinux, was a mod on the !linux_gaming@lemmy.ml community until they were caught abusing their moderator powers. Then they deleted their account and complained on mastodon that it's stupid design that mod logs are public. [Screenshot]
Instead, here's a link to the official post https://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamworks/announcements/detail/4547038620960934857
- LMAO
Cleaning up files upon uninstall - Your uninstall script should already be cleaning up any files created or modified by your install process. However, we know that some older games may not fully remove files upon uninstall, and it isn't possible to update the game any longer. Players need to know if any anti-cheat utilities have left files behind, especially those that modify OS kernel files.
This section alone shows how stupid kernel level anti-cheat is. Play a game and gain a persistent security risk. It's actually a feature that such games don't run on Linux.
- This reminds me of the stupid Gigabyte RGB software...
  Not sure if this is till the case, but for a long time the kernel driver had a known unpatched security vulnerability. And uninstalling the software did not remove the kernel files, so now your system is vulnerable until you reinstall Windows...
  And I fully expect some kernel level Anti-Cheat to be no better in this regard.
Omg that logo. GoL is a hexbear confirmed!
- In case you happen to be unaware, that's EAC's logo.
  If it was just a joke, imagine I didn't say anything.
  
  EAC is heaxbear, confirmed!

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