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More likely anti-cheat software to see if you have a mouse-mover installed.
by LinuxBender 5y ago
More likely anti-cheat software to see if you have a mouse-mover installed.
- giuliomagnifico 5y ago…imagine if every X minutes a captcha appears on you Zoom call and asks you to complete it… and people already call it “Zoom fatigue” =]
- numpad0 5y agoNext step: RISC-V edge neural jiggler mousepad, runs for up to 3 years on single CR123A
- hnburnsy 5y agoMechanical mouse mover jigglers are already a thing for companies that do not let you install software.
- majkinetor 5y agoIts not like game companies are not trying to do stuff like that for decades, with 0 success.
- colejohnson66 5y agoIt is successful. It’s just not perfect. With DRM, it’s not about stopping piracy; it’s about preventing it. With Denouvo specifically, it’s about preventing piracy around release time (when investors are looking), not later. With “anti-cheat” software here, it wouldn’t be about stopping auto-mouse-movers, but about making it hard enough that people reconsider. If I can just download a tool and be done with it, that’s a lot easier than registry hacks and whatnot. It’s an arms race, but it’s not like it’s useless effort. (Before anyone accuses me of being pro-DRM or anti-auto-mouse-movers, I’m not. I’m just explaining the logic behind why they exist)
- majkinetor 5y agoIts not. Its major disaster. What else could it be, when you punish regular payers because some of the people use hacked version (and without it, they wouldn't pay it nevertheless, so hack is net positive for the company). If I pay $60 for the game, I don't expect all kind of semi-malware shit installed on my computer, slowing it down even when I don't play the game, making it buggy and yet still having next to 0 effect on hacking groups. Its just madness. To prevent theft from "regular people" because its easy, you have different much better and 0 intrusion methods to achieve that.
- loquor 5y agoIts doesn't have to be a software. Mine is a python script that jiggles every N minutes, where N is a command line parameter.
- wodenokoto 5y agoHow is a Python script not software?
- loquor 5y agoRight, it is software. I meant software product or software tool.
- squeaky-clean 5y agoAnticheat software or similar would still detect whatever sys calls you're making to emulate mouse movement and be able to tell it's not coming directly from the mouse driver.