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[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Read the EULA, if you don't want an anticheat that requires those permissions then don't install the game.

Something having kernel access doesn't make it a rootkit, it makes it high-risk for misuse by a threat actor. Only if the software was exploited by a bad actor to acquire root/hardware permissions would this issue actually become something.

That, or if the anticheat wasn't uninstallable and/or dodged scans intended to locate it, etc.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Putting the responsibility to understand legalese (and advanced concepts like rootkits) to such an extent on the end user is just straight gaslighting. Nobody has the required expertise to determine what an EULA actually says outside of the lawyer who wrote it, and even then, I wouldn't guarantee it.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Damn now we are misusing gaslighting as well to just mean "hiding something."

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Ugh. As in blaming someone, casting aspersions on them for something that isn't their fault or responsibility. Words broaden in meaning. If you're going to quibble about semantics, I got nothing to say to you.