Comment on Steam games will now need to fully disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages
ThermonuclearCactus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
I bought Sea of Thieves about 5 years ago. Recently, they added kernal-level anticheat (which does precisely fuck-all to actually stop cheating). While that is annoying, I’m not particularly worried because the studio that makes that game is owned by Microsoft, and like all Microsoft products, it was banished to my windows partition with the rest of the spyware.
MoonHawk@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Well… kernel level software can access everything on your computer. That includes other partitions and unmounted drives
raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Only if those other partitions are not encrypted. Sure, it could still wipe them - but that’s something that backups are good for, and something you would certainly notice immediately :)
ThermonuclearCactus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Anything sensitive is encrypted and I never decrypt it while running windows.