cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/8449648
Thinking about installing Riot’s rootkit
If I have an encrypted Linux partition and a Windows partition that I use as a bootloader into Riot’s games, what are the drawbacks of installing their kernel level anticheat?
I would worry less about Riot being the one who is gonna be decrypting your stuff and worry more about some malicious actor who manages to get access to your computer. Running anything that communicates over the internet with such high priveleges is a massive attack surface
Well, we don’t need to imagine; Genshin Impact already showed us.
Given that they got hacked multiple times, and every update breaks their client, I don’t think it makes sense to trust they can secure their malware.