{"id":12233,"date":"2020-04-13T09:23:53","date_gmt":"2020-04-13T13:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=844deac6f78b65c9cb76bb085524806b"},"modified":"2020-04-13T09:23:53","modified_gmt":"2020-04-13T13:23:53","slug":"riot-games-newest-title-valorant-installs-kernel-driver-to-run-anti-cheat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=12233","title":{"rendered":"Riot Games newest title &ldquo;Valorant&rdquo; installs kernel driver to run anti-cheat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/old.reddit.com\/r\/VALORANT\/comments\/fzxdl7\/anticheat_starts_upon_computer_boot\/fn6yqbe\/\">Hacker News<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color : #fff7d5;\n\t\t\tborder-width : 1px; padding : 5px; border-style : dashed; border-color : #e7d796;margin-bottom : 1em; color : #9a8c59;\">Article note: Installing a kernel-mode rootkit to combat cheating in a game seems really excessive to me, and like an incentive for even-more-intrusive cheating mechanisms to propagate malware, but I've never really taken multiplayer anything seriously.\r\nEdit: Oh. https:\/\/twitter.com\/lukeweston\/status\/1249901037160284161 They do.\r\nI'm surprised the cheat market hasn't moved on to hardware, an HDMI tap and USB HID device emulator on a little attached computer could do a lot, as could a carefully tampered network card.<\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=22855600\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Comments<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comments<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=12233\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}