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Thinking about installing Riot's rootkit (lemmy.zip)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Thinking about installing Riot's rootkit

If I have an encrypted Linux partition and a Windows partition that I use as a bootloader into Riot's games, what are the drawbacks of installing their kernel level anticheat?

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I would worry less about Riot being the one who is gonna be decrypting your stuff and worry more about some malicious actor who manages to get access to your computer. Running anything that communicates over the internet with such high priveleges is a massive attack surface

[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Well, we don't need to imagine; Genshin Impact already showed us.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

Given that they got hacked multiple times, and every update breaks their client, I don't think it makes sense to trust they can secure their malware.