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[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 29 points 3 months ago (1 children)

"This incident shows clearly that Windows must prioritize change and innovation in the area of end-to-end resilience,"

Business-speak for "Maybe it's time we started making it not break so easily."

[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

More like they want to use this to justify locking the kernel from end user change completely, thus enabling them to truly lock down any system.

[–] Veticia@lemmy.ml 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm fine with game anticheats not having root access.

[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I don't disagree, but it's MY machine. I can choose to not use the apps that want kernel access, which is about the only thing we can do.

The reason anti-cheats use kernel is because end users keep playing the games. I don't have a good answer here, because too many people just can't be bothered to understand their tacit agreement to this garbage

[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago

it’s MY machine

Yes, and you don't need to install Windows on your machine.

[–] Veticia@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago

At this point I'm scared to install a game without doing a research of what kind of intrusive software it uses. Sometimes it's just safer to install it on a console.