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So what’s so bad if it’s kernel level?

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It is a potential security risk to the system and enables extremely intrusive control and surveillance.

It’s basically a rootkit.

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Yikes. I did not know that. I’m a Linux user but when it comes to talking about kernel stuff I’m like “what?”

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Tldr kernel access is bad.

You have a great personal reference point for this; you use Linux, and when have you ever needed kernel access regularly?

What conceivable reason could a game dev have for wanting access to that?

How could having that access be detrimental to your machines security?

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They can’t even effectively prevent cheaters so I’m always suspicious what the real intent of these rootkits.

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