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Valorant requires it for anticheat. The purpose is to prevent users from running unauthorized software on the computers they allegedly own. I wouldn't expect m
by reginald78 2y ago
Valorant requires it for anticheat. The purpose is to prevent users from running unauthorized software on the computers they allegedly own.
I wouldn't expect many examples to exist yet. You want to wait until almost everyone is on Windows 11 before you get up to those shenanigans.
- p_ing 2y agoValorant uses VBS, which in turn requires TPM 2.0. Valorant isn't directly leveraging TPM. https://support-valorant.riotgames.com/hc/en-us/articles/16941220890899-Addressing-Virtualization-based-security-VBS-settings-on-Windows-10-VAN9005-VALORANT https://support-valorant.riotgames.com/hc/en-us/articles/169...
- Avamander 2y agoThey're leveraging TPMs in the sense that they're banning specific ones.
- reginald78 2y agoI can't remember if this was Valorant related but I recall an article voicing concerns that physical hardware in PCs being used to identify users to ban and that the ban would persist when you purchased a used motherboard. Not a great general concern to me for games but the idea has much more sinister potential than just that.
- techjamie 2y ago> The purpose is to prevent users from running unauthorized software on the computers they allegedly own. I've maintained for several years now that the actual corporate wet dream is that they can lock down the average PC architecture/OS to the same degree they have on phones. Because unfortunately, in the phone sector, the market has already shown the majority of users don't care who really owns their devices. My hope is that Linux gets wide enough adoption to prevent that from becoming a feasible option for them in the future.
- p_ing 2y agoBuy a Mac. You'll see that corporate dream come a reality. Immutable OS partition. Security prompts that can no longer be bypassed. Binary signing requirement. It just keeps getting worse and worse, for a power user. May be "certified UNIX" (when you look at it funny), but it feels like no freedom-loving UNIX-style system I've ever used.
- trelane 2y agoLast I knew, Microsoft's goal is to get XBox restrictions into Windows.
- cesarb 2y ago> My hope is that Linux gets wide enough adoption to prevent that from becoming a feasible option for them in the future. This has already happened: Linux had wide enough adoption that Microsoft could be convinced to allow alternative operating systems in Secure Boot.
- userbinator 2y agoBecause unfortunately, in the phone sector, the market has already shown the majority of users don't care who really owns their devices. My hope is that Linux gets wide enough adoption to prevent that from becoming a feasible option for them in the future. Linux already got a really wide adoption --- in the form of Android.
- toast0 2y agoGiven than qemu (and I assume other virtual machines) can emulate a TPM 2.0 device, does this even work? Yes, anticheat tends to detect virtualization too, so there's extra cat and mouse there, of course.
- deno 2y agoThere’s an embedded immutable Endorsment Key (EK) sometimes along with public crypto cert (EKCert) signed by manufacturer the TPM can use to prove its authenticity. With the certificate you can detect the QEMU case.