alt Hacker NewsIt doesn’t have to be 100%. The point is to make it inconvenient. The majority of people will not do it if it is inconvenient.
Thats the point to many things in life that you just make it more difficult and most people won’t be bothered to attempt to circumvent whatever it is.
There will still be circumventers but it is will be less than if you just said fuck it.
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63stack • today at 3:49 PM
Sure, and my point is that making it inconvenient for other people to cheat is a way too low bar for us to accept rootkits on our systems.
Sure. That also means it doesn't have to be kernel-level rootkits that fundamentally break the security model of my operating system and risk my bank account. Most people will be stopped by userland anticheat, right? It's inconvenient. So ... put it *there.*
And if someone does the kernel bypass thing, well, rely on server-side heuristics (which are imperfect, but also unknowable to the attacker) and you'll discourage enough of that with account bans.
Helpfully eSports players tend to have video captures of their gameplay, and most of these "undetectable" cheats are real obvious if you actually watch the footage. That catches most of the serious stuff at the upper level. It's why video verification has been a thing in the speedrunning scene for such a long time.