Vanguard, the controversial anti-cheat software initially attached to Valorant, is now also coming to League of Legends.
Summary:
The article discusses Riot Games’ requirement for players to install their Vanguard anti-cheat software, which runs at the kernel level, in order to play their games such as League of Legends and Valorant. The software aims to combat cheating by scanning for known vulnerabilities and blocking them, as well as monitoring for suspicious activity while the game is being played. However, the use of kernel-level software raises concerns about privacy and security, as it grants the company complete access to users’ devices.
The article highlights that Riot Games is owned by Tencent, a Chinese tech giant that has been involved in censorship and surveillance activities in China. This raises concerns that Vanguard could potentially be used for similar purposes, such as monitoring players’ activity and restricting free speech in-game.
Ultimately, the decision to install Vanguard rests with players, but the article urges caution and encourages players to consider the potential risks and implications before doing so.
You cannot make a paper that can have any text written onto, but not the one text you don’t like. The only way to do it is to spy on someone and check actively what is being written.
You cannot make a computer that can run any program written into, but not the one program you don’t like. The only way to do it is to spy on someone eather physically or via lower level spyware.
Yes you can. This has been done multiple times for decades now.
Nope, this is mathematically impossible. See what is Turing completeness, any complete programmable system, like any programming language can simulate any other language and system. You can run Windows on Minecraft redstone or spaceship program on a smartwarch as they are Turing complete systems. Only roadblock is time to port it and slow execution.
The only way someone can get close is to nerf the whole system by allowing only a single program to run. This is how secure boot works, it looks at what you run and say “sorry Dave” if it’s not signed. But if this signed program is also complete, like operating systems are, you still can run things on top of it :#. It’s complicated, but TLDR there is no way to say “can run anything - 1”, only “can run X number of programs” and there’ll never be.
Yes, I think I was misunderstanding the original point.