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For the network MITM just using encryption makes it significantly harder. For the PCIe card they blacklist the drivers and/or flag your account if they detect the hardware. It's not 100% proof you're cheating if you have one of those cards, there are legitimate uses for them, particularly for dev work, but game companies can be absurd with their demands as we've seen and refusing to run on particular hardware isn't anything new for them.
There's still ways to do things like snoop on system buses and such that can't be detected, but you're not dealing with off the shelf hardware at that point and the technical knowhow is extreme, so it's a vanishingly small number of people with the skills to do that. When you consider the venn diagram of people with those skills, and people that want to cheat at games there's pretty much no overlap.