It's really disturbing how popular the notion that rootkit-based anti-cheat is a good thing is on the internet at large.
I love it when a thread like this comes up on Lemmy every single comment condemns EAC's whole anti-cheat model.
Y'all are all right.
While I am sceptical of rootkit based anti-cheat as well, I am also not a fan of how quickly everyone has jumped to assuming this is EAC's problem and not a problem with Apex Legends, is there some solid evidence for that that I'm just unaware of?
"We have investigated ourselves and have found we have done nothing wrong."
That's exactly how i read that. It's so bizzare that they get kernel access to so many computers, and don't even do the thing that they are supposed to do.
Says the company that took three years to implement a shopping cart for their shitty store.
I don't know much about anti-cheat development, but it can't possibly be that hard to at least implement something that checks whether a player even could have done something in a certain amount of time which would eliminate a lot of speed related cheats, and for the rest, why not look at data averages to try to weed out cheaters?
I know combing through the data is probably complicated, but so is installing kernel level anti cheat software that has to monitor every single process running on a person's computer.
It's cheaper to install malware.
That's all there is to it: cost.
So if it isn't a RCE vulnerability, what vulnerability is it?
Their wording is actually quite deliberate. They say there isn't one being exploited, but they do not explicitly say that there isn't a RCE vulnerability.
It kinda stinks of ass coverage.
"I did not have sexual relations with that woman"
Yeah, it stood out to me.
It's always in what they don't say.
If they say it's not a RCE vulnerability, it could still be a privilege escalation vulnerability etc. They avoided saying their software isn't being exploited or "we have seen no evidence our software has been compromised", or "there is no clear signs...".
Which gives a little wriggle room.
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