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Thinking about installing Riot's rootkit
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Also note that even a dual boot system is leaky. A kernel level anticheat has enough power to do firmware upgrades on peripherals or the UEFI, so a badly behaving kernel level anticheat could easily take over your entire system in a way that can never be gotten rid of.
Anything kernel level can theoretically modify anything in your TPM too, so Linux programs that use it (admittedly I'm not sure any user program use it) could be manipulated in weird ways
In what ways? The worst it could do to the TPM directly is invalidate your secure boot unless I'm missing something.
for me that's enough of an inconvenience to wash my hands of the whole dual-booting scenario.