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[–] chrischryse@lemmy.world -4 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Hawke@lemmy.world 44 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (2 children)

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

It’s basically a rootkit.

[–] Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 17 hours ago

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

[–] chrischryse@lemmy.world 16 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] humandotexe@sopuli.xyz 12 points 18 hours ago

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?