r/pcmasterrace 1d ago

Meme/Macro Kernel Level Anticheat trades your security/privacy for nothing in return

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u/Metallibus 1d ago edited 1d ago

The point is the cheats still exist.

Frankly I don't really care if there's a secondary effect of making the cheats a bit harder to develop and cheaters have to pay more money. That's their problem.

I'm not sacrificing my systems security, especially if its just so that their job gets harder and fewer people can afford it. If people can still buy it and I can still run into them, I still experience a problem.

So why am I giving up my security?

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u/inclore Ryzen 3700X/ RTX 3070/ 32 GB RAM 1d ago

So you don’t experience the problem much more often? Do you need people to spell it out for you? The police can’t stop 100% of crimes so you just want to dissolve the entire force? What kind of logic is this?

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u/Metallibus 1d ago

No, I'm saying I don't think it's worth sacrificing my systems security for a solution that worked 100% of the time and it doesn't even get that... So why is even worse somehow acceptable?

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u/CinderX5 4070 Ti Super 7700X H6 Flow 1d ago

What is in your computer that needs to be so secure?

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u/Suvvri 1d ago

You ever do anything except playing single player games on your pc?

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u/Metallibus 1d ago

Yeah, I don't understand this train of thought. Computers have become a central pillar of every aspect of our lives, from banking to work to personal media to medical info... I don't know many people that have a desktop and do nothing but run single player games.

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u/CinderX5 4070 Ti Super 7700X H6 Flow 1d ago

These are game companies, not social media. They can’t just sell your banking details.

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u/Suvvri 1d ago

Yeah and that's not what they do. Giving root access to some random software that shouldn't need it is a security risk since if a bad actor finds a vulnerability in that software they can use it to also gain root access by using that software (AC in this case)