That’s the thing I don’t ever see Linus approving a merged request to add a kernel level anti-cheat (rootkit) into the Linux kernel. So they will have to come up with another way. Also at this point kernel level anti-cheat doesn’t even work anymore. It’s like the TSA its their to make people (investors) feel safe but really does very little to stop the thing it’s meant to and Inconvenience and annoy legit customers. Just like with DRM and pirates.
I mean, didn’t the nvidia private driver need to be added by recompiling the kernel? They could just install it like that right? Not that i approve of it, but i think there is a way.
True but they can be a version compatibility nightmare. Plus part of that being recompiled in means the non blob bits are open source in this case GPL and MIT. A anti cheat would not want that to be open source as it would be a cat and mouse game with the cheaters having an open book.
That’s the thing I don’t ever see Linus approving a merged request to add a kernel level anti-cheat (rootkit) into the Linux kernel. So they will have to come up with another way. Also at this point kernel level anti-cheat doesn’t even work anymore. It’s like the TSA its their to make people (investors) feel safe but really does very little to stop the thing it’s meant to and Inconvenience and annoy legit customers. Just like with DRM and pirates.
I mean, didn’t the nvidia private driver need to be added by recompiling the kernel? They could just install it like that right? Not that i approve of it, but i think there is a way.
True but they can be a version compatibility nightmare. Plus part of that being recompiled in means the non blob bits are open source in this case GPL and MIT. A anti cheat would not want that to be open source as it would be a cat and mouse game with the cheaters having an open book.
Probably going to be written as eBPF which is what all the corpo antivirus stuff does today.
Doesn’t need to be added to the kernel, you can load kernel code in from user level at runtime.
https://ebpf.io/what-is-ebpf/