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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish6•2 months agoSo what’s so bad if it’s kernel level?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish32•edit-22 months agoIt is a potential security risk to the system and enables extremely intrusive control and surveillance. It’s basically a rootkit.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish14•2 months agoYikes. I did not know that. I’m a Linux user but when it comes to talking about kernel stuff I’m like “what?”
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish9•2 months agoTldr kernel access is bad. You have a great personal reference point for this; you use Linux, and when have you ever needed kernel access regularly? What conceivable reason could a game dev have for wanting access to that? How could having that access be detrimental to your machines security?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish13•2 months agoThey can’t even effectively prevent cheaters so I’m always suspicious what the real intent of these rootkits.
So what’s so bad if it’s kernel level?
It is a potential security risk to the system and enables extremely intrusive control and surveillance.
It’s basically a rootkit.
Yikes. I did not know that. I’m a Linux user but when it comes to talking about kernel stuff I’m like “what?”
Tldr kernel access is bad.
You have a great personal reference point for this; you use Linux, and when have you ever needed kernel access regularly?
What conceivable reason could a game dev have for wanting access to that?
How could having that access be detrimental to your machines security?
They can’t even effectively prevent cheaters so I’m always suspicious what the real intent of these rootkits.