Company promises countermeasures against new DRM bypasses — zero-day game releases become norm as security concerns mount over hypervisor-based bypass

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[–] upstroke4448@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 7 hours ago (5 children)

This seems like a bad faith argument, the crack is basically installing a rootkit in your system. Its fair to assume a lot of casual users will be as ignorant as you are about the security issues and not re-enable the features.

If you truly can't see why that might be worse then DRM installed in a game your a fool.

[–] cecilkorik@piefed.ca 20 points 6 hours ago

If it's a question of installing a rootkit belonging to either the evil pirates who are closer to my kind of evil, or evil corporations who are literally destroying the internet, civilization, and the world in order to masturbate in their AI training gulags with my personal data? I'd choose to trust the pirates every time.

That said, if I have to install a rootkit from anyone to play a fucking game, I'm probably just not playing that fucking game.

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 22 points 7 hours ago

Are you familiar with how denuvo works? It is also a literal root kit. Yes it doesn’t run on ring -1, but it is ring 0.

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 8 points 7 hours ago

the crack is basically installing a rootkit in your system

As is denuvo.

[–] ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com 9 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

Well... Nothing new then.

https://discuss.techlore.tech/t/psa-eac-apex-legends-anti-cheat-vulnerability/7768

https://arxiv.org/html/2408.00500v1

[–] AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 1 points 52 minutes ago* (last edited 49 minutes ago)

Could a kind soul repipe all that garbage JavaScript escape code for:
<discourse-assets-json> <div class="hidden" id="data-preloaded" data-preloaded="{"topic_7768":"{\"post_stream
to markdown, Creole, or Org?

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 hours ago

Ok, I'll play the fool. Why is it worse? Is there some reason I should trust irdeto more than a guy in a hoodie?