Comment by jsheard
13 days ago
I'm sure this company is more focused on the enterprise angle, but I wonder if the buildout of support for remote attestation could eventually resolve the Linux gaming vs. anti-cheat stalemate. At least for those willing to use a "blessed" kernel provided by Valve or whoever.
Road to hell is paved with good intentions.
Somebody will use it and eventually force it if it exists and I don't think gaming especially those requiring anti-cheat is worth that risk.
If that means linux will not be able to overtake window's market share, that's ok. At-least the year of the linux memes will still be funny.
That'd be too bad. Sometimes, I feel like the general public doesn't deserve general purpose computing.
Only by creating a new stalemate between essential liberty and a little temporary security — anticheat doesn't protect you from DMA cheating.
I might be behind on the latest counter-counter-counter-measures, but I know some of the leading AC solutions are already using IOMMU to wedge a firewall between passive DMA sniffers and the game processes memory.
e.g. https://support.faceit.com/hc/en-us/articles/19590307650588-...
I think they use hardware IDs of devices with IOMMU-incompatible drivers.
I love the gall
> IOMMU is a powerful hardware security feature, which is used to protect your machine from malicious software
The ring-0 anticheat IS that fucking malicious software
> resolve the Linux gaming vs. anti-cheat stalemate
It will.
Then just a bit later no movies for you unless you are running a blessed distro. Then Chrome will start reporting to websites that you are this weird guy with a dangerous unlocked distro, so no banking for you. Maybe no government services as well because obviously you are a hacker. Why would you run an unlocked linux if you were not?
I would rather have it unresolved forever.
I sincerely hope not.