Players rave and rant about the wonders of kernel level anti cheats, and how games like Valorant barely have any cheaters compared VAC secured Counter Strike...
Who could have possibly seen that coming? It’s almost like anything other than server side anticheat is conceptually broken! (See the monitors with ML map assist and the past 20 years of client exploits). And that’s ignoring the currently strong financial incentives of breaking these things…
Yesterday: we need kernel level anti-cheat to stop cheaters! Privacy be damned.
Today: here’s how cheaters bypass anti cheat in the kernel.
Who could have possibly seen that coming? It’s almost like anything other than server side anticheat is conceptually broken! (See the monitors with ML map assist and the past 20 years of client exploits). And that’s ignoring the currently strong financial incentives of breaking these things…