Cheat deterrents like kernel drivers are raising legitimate privacy concerns. But it's not all bad news.
Still, games studies were, and often remain, cautious about implementing their own driver solutions. Working in the kernel is difficult—it’s more specialized and requires loads of quality assurance testing because the potential impact of bad code is so much more drastic—which leads to increased expense. “Even at Riot, nobody wanted us to make a driver.
In most cases, hackers can get what they want without anywhere near that level of sophistication. As part of its penetration testing, Netragard simulates the work of ransomware groups, and “even when we're delivering the most advanced level of that service, we don't need to use attacks that go down that low. There's never been a need or even an inkling of a need at that level,” Desautels says.
A kernel driver leading to an external attack might be staggeringly unlikely, but many gamers worry that this software is designed, at least in part, to provide game companies themselves with unprecedented levels of access and information about users’ machines. Chamberlain contends there’s “no incentive” for anti-cheats to go on a “fishing expedition” for users’ personal information., anyone could be forgiven for harboring suspicions.
The relative risk of programming in the kernel also tends to be an advantage for the privacy-minded. “Scans that look for cheats or scans that analyze game behavior, or anything that sends information back to the game developers’ servers, that will usually not be running in the kernel and not be active unless the game is active,” Chamberlain says. “The reason is that kernel programming is actually kind of difficult to do. And so you want to do as little of it as possible.
It’s worth recalling that non-kernel anti-cheats have been accused of these sorts of overreaches in the past. In 2005, Blizzard’s Warden was
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