not_a9

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1. 91.▲
   by not_a9 10mo ago

   > We all know they are inefficient and weaponized by hackers. Name an exploit in EAC/BattlEye/Vanguard/FaceIT/whatever other big name anticheat middleware (though Vanguard and FaceIT don’t sell their services I think)
2. 92.▲
   by not_a9 10mo ago

   > because Epic has chosen not to support Linux Because Epic doesn’t want payhack configs to be advertised in whatever leaderboards Fortnite has, like CS2 had for a while.
3. 93.▲
   by not_a9 10mo ago

   Fun fact: LuaJIT FFI actually has a similar feature. You can do funky things like detour hooking with this functionality too. https://luajit.org/ext_ffi_semantics.html
4. 94.▲
   by not_a9 10mo ago

   Pretty sure HvH is still alive and well in CS2 and high rank Premier is still basically Valve-hosted HvH.
5. 95.▲
   by not_a9 11mo ago

   (I had to make a HN account to reply to this, but…) If only Riot, Epic, BE, whoever else knew about this wondrous approach! That way they wouldn’t have to reverse half the Windows kernel to figure out ways to stop & detect hacks. Valve