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League of Legends does not use a Kernel-level anti-cheat. If you had actually read the article in question, this would have been made clear.

mattwilsonn888 4y ago
> ...entire game code for League of Legends and its tools, as well as Packman, your usermode anti-cheat. We understand the significance of these artifacts and the impact their release to the public would have on your major titles, Valorant and League of Legends Mate you are chastising him for not reading the article and you are contradicted by the first paragraph.
- Operyl 4y ago
  And in your own quote they stated it’s the user mode anticheat, and in Riot’s statement they said it’s an old/legacy anti cheat. This is not Vanguard, the kernel level anti cheat.
  - worthless-trash 4y ago
    Just to further clarify, Code running in the kernel context is different than code running in the user context. Another process can modify user context, whereas it is expected that code running in the kernel context is "much harder". A dedicated attacker could write kernel code which does the modifications, however this raises the bar and the anti cheat software could the game from running if it detects any unsigned drivers. All this does is raise the bar to where the game is run into virtualization where the host OS can inspect the guests memory and infer details that way. The cat and mouse game goes on forever, the trick is to make it just hard enough so that the average person who wants to cheat will not not have the time, patience or financial incentive to do so.
adql 4y ago
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- filiphorvat 4y ago
  On "people that don't know what they're talking about" today! That's the anti-cheat which only Valorant uses
- ehhthing 4y ago
  You're quoting something from Valorant, not League of Legends. They use two different anti-cheat systems. As a person who actually plays the game on a M1 Pro MacBook running in x86 emulation, which is not supported by kernel mode drivers, I can tell you with absolute certainty (unless of course Riot has found an exploit that allows installation of unsigned system drivers), that my computer has no non-apple drivers installed.
filiphorvat 4y ago
Why is your comment greyed out? Are people being so confidently incorrect that they downvoted this comment?

mattwilsonn888 4y ago

> ...entire game code for League of Legends and its tools, as well as Packman, your usermode anti-cheat. We understand the significance of these artifacts and the impact their release to the public would have on your major titles, Valorant and League of Legends Mate you are chastising him for not reading the article and you are contradicted by the first paragraph.

Operyl 4y ago
And in your own quote they stated it’s the user mode anticheat, and in Riot’s statement they said it’s an old/legacy anti cheat. This is not Vanguard, the kernel level anti cheat.
- worthless-trash 4y ago
  Just to further clarify, Code running in the kernel context is different than code running in the user context. Another process can modify user context, whereas it is expected that code running in the kernel context is "much harder". A dedicated attacker could write kernel code which does the modifications, however this raises the bar and the anti cheat software could the game from running if it detects any unsigned drivers. All this does is raise the bar to where the game is run into virtualization where the host OS can inspect the guests memory and infer details that way. The cat and mouse game goes on forever, the trick is to make it just hard enough so that the average person who wants to cheat will not not have the time, patience or financial incentive to do so.

adql 4y ago

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filiphorvat 4y ago
On "people that don't know what they're talking about" today! That's the anti-cheat which only Valorant uses
ehhthing 4y ago
You're quoting something from Valorant, not League of Legends. They use two different anti-cheat systems. As a person who actually plays the game on a M1 Pro MacBook running in x86 emulation, which is not supported by kernel mode drivers, I can tell you with absolute certainty (unless of course Riot has found an exploit that allows installation of unsigned system drivers), that my computer has no non-apple drivers installed.

filiphorvat 4y ago

Why is your comment greyed out? Are people being so confidently incorrect that they downvoted this comment?