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If a surgeon does not have the expertise to perform a surgery, they probably shouldn’t cut into you. If the company lacks the competency to write secure driers
by hsbauauvhabzb 9mo ago
If a surgeon does not have the expertise to perform a surgery, they probably shouldn’t cut into you.
If the company lacks the competency to write secure driers, they should outsource the work or have it validated externally.
These things could be solved by spending money. Stop excusing dangerous actions performed in the name of greed.
- supersing 9mo agoIt is not realistic to expect every game developer to invest a lot of money into security. It's like asking every apartment building to run its own fire department. The responsibility of securing a platform should not fall on application developers anyway.
- ronsor 9mo agoThe problem is that general purpose computing platforms are not supposed to be secured against the user. That's a WONTFIX.
- direwolf20 9mo agoUser ownership of their devices has been fixed on every platform except PCs.
- hsbauauvhabzb 9mo agoAnd most other device types have a specific purpose, with the exception of mobile phones which were built from the ground up with device control in mind, mobile devices only really support one operating system barring edge case exceptions.
- direwolf20 9mo agoBecause only one was written, but there's more than one because there's LineageOS — if you can bypass Secure Boot.
- hsbauauvhabzb 9mo agoThat an edge case. Linage works on a subset of devices. Find me an amd64 computer that doesn’t support Linux. I think you’d agree that it would be far easier to technically and socially lock mobile devices to signed deployments only, with jailbreaks becoming rarer and more valuable over time, than to do the same with desktop and laptop computers, due to their requirement to support many different functional requirements (PcIe, thunderbolt peripherals, distributed compute, etc). I’m not saying I like this, but I think phones will become a single viable OS and locked down ecosystem in the next 5 years. Desktops will follow, but not at the same rate.
- hsbauauvhabzb 9mo agoIt’s not the nurses job to perform surgery either, that’s why they don’t.
- pjmlp 9mo agoYes it is, and liability across the industry is already late. By the way, in some countries apartment buildings need several licenses, including one from fire department, before been allowed to have people living on them.
- RobotToaster 9mo agoMicrosoft could easily secure windows by blocking all rootkits/"kernel anti cheat". At this point that's probably the best option. Games should never have kernel level access.
- hsbauauvhabzb 9mo agoGames are a multi billion dollar industry that Microsoft has a stake in. A better option would be a ‘games mode’ and a ‘secure mode’.
- charcircuit 9mo agoExactly, which is why Microsoft should be writing the one writing the kernel code needed for ensuring integrity of games. Microsoft needs to develop ways to allow games to run in an isolated VM that is hardware protected from the main operating system and ensures strong hardware security so cheaters can not simply attach malicious devices to the PCI bus to DMA sensitive data.
- 15155 9mo ago> attach malicious devices to the PCI bus to DMA sensitive data How do you do this in modern system with TPMs and IOMMU enabled?
- charcircuit 9mo agoSadly not all Windows machines are able to use kernel DMA protection, so for those machines nothing will stop you.
- 15155 9mo agoThe obvious next step is to disallow those elderly machines once a critical mass of users have modern-enough equipment. We're almost there.
- direwolf20 9mo agoYou pretend to be a device with a driver not compatible with IOMMU
- 15155 9mo agoThis is a good move, but why isn't the anti-cheat software just refusing to operate on systems with these devices attached?
- direwolf20 9mo agoBecause banning players from playing your game leads to refunds and bad publicity