Comment on Battlefield 6 dev apologizes for requiring Secure Boot to power anti-cheat tools
9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world 4 weeks agoAre people still parroting that secure boot is a rootkit, even though its actually designed to prevent root kits from being installed?
BrikoX@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
Secure Boot is not the rootkit, the anti-cheat software that requires kernel level access (Secure Boot) to operate is the rootkit.
9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Secure boot won’t let your kernel be modified though.
Their anti cheat software just makes sure that you haven’t tampered with the kernel at all. It just monitors for any changes after the system has booted.
It does not modify your kernel.
BrikoX@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
Not entirely. The actual anti-cheat software that have access to the kernel with Secure Boot can be modified to either intentionally the developer or unintentionally by a hack. It’s unnecessary attack vector among many other non-security related issues.
9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
My point stands. The anti cheat doesn’t modify your kernel though. Its not a rootkit.