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Epic Games is hiring a Senior Game Security Engineer for their Anti-Cheat team to champion Linux anti-cheat capabilities while working on OS internals, reverse engineering, and protecting multiplayer (lemmy.ml)
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[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

And? It still detects the cheats and bans the users. And it does it without kernel-level anti-cheat.

The delay isn't a limitation, it's a design decision to prevent reverse engineering, as you've point out. Yet that didn't stop you from falsely alluding that it's not capable

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

Why the fuck you going at me with both guns drawn when all I did was explain, factually and neutrally, about how VAC works and why you see bans happen in waves instead of in the moment?