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By installing spyware.
by kgwxd 7y ago
By installing spyware.
- saagarjha 7y agoI wouldn't call this spyware; it doesn't seem to reach outside of its own process (though I guess it does report back what you could call analytics).
- nneonneo 7y agoBattlEye apparently comes with a kernel component called BEDaisy which preemptively tries to block attempts to patch Windows API functions. That has some people calling it a root kit or spyware.
- Red_Leaves_Flyy 7y agoMany long running undetected game hacks use kernel hooks. If the hack runs before the anti cheat or with higher privileges then the anti cheat is just a resource hog.
- m4rtink 7y agoHaving a game that fumbles with kernel internals is insane. That should simply be not possible privilege wise.
- mike_hock 7y agoIt sends a memory dump, which could contain the player's credentials (or fragments thereof) in plaintext.
- dspillett 7y agoI'm sure some of it does extend beyond the relevant processes. Back in 2005/2006 Sony where installing rootkits on PCs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootkit_scandal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootk... - this is why to this day I try make sure very little with "Sony" printed upon it touches my network. IIRC the best we got by way of an apology was "we are sorry Sony BMG embarrassed the group by getting caught" and "we promise not to do exactly the same thing again in the near future" (weasel words that meant they could do other equally crappy things immediately and as now is not the near future from then that could do the same thing now without breaking their word). That was to try to protect content in audio CD tracks by breaking things that might allow copying, I'm sure similar methods can be (and probably have been) used to try block game cheats too.
- saagarjha 7y agoOh sure, in general these kinds of things tend to be bordering on malware. But this specifically doesn't seem to be too horrible.