Comment by direwolf20
Comment by direwolf20 5 days ago
Only by creating a new stalemate between essential liberty and a little temporary security — anticheat doesn't protect you from DMA cheating.
Comment by direwolf20 5 days ago
Only by creating a new stalemate between essential liberty and a little temporary security — anticheat doesn't protect you from DMA cheating.
I think they use hardware IDs of devices with IOMMU-incompatible drivers.
I love the gall
> IOMMU is a powerful hardware security feature, which is used to protect your machine from malicious software
The ring-0 anticheat IS that fucking malicious software
I might be behind on the latest counter-counter-counter-measures, but I know some of the leading AC solutions are already using IOMMU to wedge a firewall between passive DMA sniffers and the game processes memory.
e.g. https://support.faceit.com/hc/en-us/articles/19590307650588-...