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Making it super simple, it runs with full access on your machine, always. It can fuck anything up, and see everything. It can get your browser history, banking details or private messages you enter, activate your webcam or mic without you knowing, or brick your computer even.

And you can’t even check what it’s really doing on your computer because it’s a crime under US law.

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scarilog@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

And you can’t even check what it’s really doing on your computer because it’s a crime under US law.

Is this specifically for kernel level anticheat? Because this isn’t a thing for software in general right??

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- HK65@sopuli.xyz ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  It’s a thing for any measure said to enforce copyright under the DMCA.
  
  So it’s a thing for most proprietary software.
  
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- Miaou@jlai.lu ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  If anything reverse engineering is more permissible in the USA than many other places, IIRC
  
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  - HK65@sopuli.xyz ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Not if you’re running afoul of the DMCA.
    
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