• Rob Bos@lemmy.ca
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    And these days people just install the rootkit, only it’s allegedly to prevent game cheating.

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      1 year ago

      And, when called out, everyone tells you you’re a paranoid, tinfoil hat wearing, organ trafficking criminal

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        1 year ago

        That’s because you guys throw around the word “rootkit” like my parents call everything “woke” or “communist.”

        You probably couldn’t even define what a rootkit is yet you’re scared shitless of a thing you can’t properly define.

        So yeah, anyone who’s afraid of something they don’t even understand fully is absolutely paranoid.

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          1 year ago

          Most people are not fully cognizant of the rights they sign away in a click through. There is paranoid and there is prudent.

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            1 year ago

            Read the EULA, if you don’t want an anticheat that requires those permissions then don’t install the game.

            Something having kernel access doesn’t make it a rootkit, it makes it high-risk for misuse by a threat actor. Only if the software was exploited by a bad actor to acquire root/hardware permissions would this issue actually become something.

            That, or if the anticheat wasn’t uninstallable and/or dodged scans intended to locate it, etc.

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              1 year ago

              Putting the responsibility to understand legalese (and advanced concepts like rootkits) to such an extent on the end user is just straight gaslighting. Nobody has the required expertise to determine what an EULA actually says outside of the lawyer who wrote it, and even then, I wouldn’t guarantee it.