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My brother claims that Vanguard for League can do the same to gaming PCs that install it as CrowdStrike did to businesses who installed that, is this true? Does Vanguard have as much access/power? (lemm.ee)

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[–] [email protected] 92 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yup.

[–] [email protected] 67 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah really not much else needed to be said here. What happened with Crowdstrike is exactly the sort of exploit Kernel Level Anti-Cheat in general has been critized for enabling on consumer hardware.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago

And why most Linux users would rather not play these games than allow that garbage on our PCs.