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Steam games will now need to fully disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages (www.gamingonlinux.com)
submitted 3 weeks 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] 5 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Not to be annoying, but can someone please ELI5 how kernel level anti-cheat software actually works, or link good resources where I can read about it.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

It runs with higher priveleges than you have and can see anything that happens on your computer.

It also creates a giant additional attack vector.

[–] scoobford 13 points 3 weeks ago

Eli5: your PC has different access levels a program can run at. This prevents a malicious or badly coded program from completely fucking your computer. Kernel level anti cheat runs at the lowest level access that exists under windows. It can do basically whatever it wants to your PC, and if a backdoor is coded in (happens way more than you'd think), it gives malware basically total access to your PC.