But don’t just trust our word on this. We’ve also worked with independent, 3rd party security and privacy assessors to validate EA anticheat does not degrade the security posture of your PC and to ensure strict data privacy boundaries.
Uhm this is just their word that they worked with independent 3rd party security and privacy assessors. They should name those so that one can verify their word.
And even if everything they say is true, just because no vulnerabilities were found doesn’t mean there aren’t any. Or that there won’t be any in the future. Or that EA won’t be using it for bullshit.
In my opinion, the risk is vulnerabilities in their driver. Threat actors love a signed driver that runs at a level like this. Saw Genshin Impact’s driver in an incident one time.
This is like having a random dude living in your walls, peeping at you through your vents. And when you call the police they say, “no need to worry, we have confirmed that there is indeed a random dude living in your walls”.
I belive its secure because until now noone found an exploit in multiplayer games with anti-cheats yet and used it to install cheats during the finals of an E-Sports tornament or something.
As long as they don’t touch BF1 and earlier I’m still fine.
Still think server side anti cheat is the ONLY way to combat cheaters at this point. All client side efforts (even kernel level) have been bypassed and hardware cheating devices running outside of the computer are becoming VERY common.
Kernel level AC has got to go, any sort of invasive AC does.
That we totally agree on.
Just saying security/privacy issues aside these types of anti cheat don’t actually help as much as some people hope in combatting cheaters.
Yup. But its the latest ‘buzzword’ in anti-cheat, so we keep getting more of them instead of time being spent developing other potential solutions.
With cheaters now using DMA to read memory locations on secondary computers, what’s your suggested solution? A great many people can go “this bad, don’t do this”…
Great. Fine. Don’t do this – then suggest something we do instead.
What do you think, considering I was replying to a comment with a proposed solution?
That’s what I’m asking you.
Why are you asking some rando in a gaming forum? You don’t need to be a security expert to know that you don’t want any random app having kernel level access to your devices just to play a game. It doesn’t take a security expert to know that. The purpose of pointing it out isn’t that we know what the best solution is, it’s to tell studios that this solution isn’t the holy grail they act like it is.
They are just looking for an argument/confrontation. It’s why I didn’t respond further.
Server side AC works well enough but as league demonstrates, it’s not a silver bullet.
League has a much bigger problem with smurfs and toxic behaviour than it does cheaters to be fair. Adding kernel anticheat to it is strange. There’s lots of account buying, sharing, win trading etc that is more prevalent and something vanguard cant fix, but Riot have never been good at focusing their efforts.
I don’t know how it is now, but when I played league in the beta and for 4 years afterwards, I only ever saw 1 cheater.
Player toxicity was off the damn charts, but still not much of a cheating problem. Might be very different now though.
League itself isn’t either.
Right? Security don’t mean shit to physical possession.
I don’t think they care, they just want to siphon your data freely given.
That’s so cool. I love that.Thanks EA ☺️ This will definitely make the game not a boring mess. You should do same with all your games. Even Sims 4. Cripple Linux compatibility and kill my performance so that we can stop those evil pirates.
/s in case it’s not obvious
EA exec: I haven’t shot us in the foot much lately, I think it’s time we did some more of that.
Heck no am I installing EA’s proprietary rootkit! There’re literally viruses that have less power than that
Well, I bought the game so i own it (IP shills can shut it). If it stops working on my linux machine, I will pirate it. And I will start distributing it to others who bought it but cant play it. Which is probably even legal where I live due to consumer protection laws.
If my windows PC doesn’t allow me root access, why is it then allowing EA root access?
just makes me want to cheat, on a goody2shoes windows machine. just to prove them wrong.
I would be fine just playing Bad Company 2 on community servers if that is an option. Haven’t bought a Battlefield game since. I don’t see that trend changing any time soon.
