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Microsoft has officially announced its intent to move security measures out of the kernel, following the Crowdstrike disaster a few short months ago. The removal of kernel access for security solutions would likely revolutionise running Windows games on the Steam Deck and other Linux systems.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 57 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (7 children)

It's probably going to move to hardware attestation similar to what Android and iOS are doing. This may or may not be a good thing.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Can anyone give an ELI5 on how hardware attestation works or is implemented on current OSes?

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