>You're advocating for installing a kernel module that you don't even know what it does exactly when running a random game.
You don't know what the game will do either. It requires trusting Riot even if there isn't an anticheat.
Also most users will never know what the other kernel level drivers do.
>Would you also support a full cavity search each time you decide to fly a plane?
I don't see how this is related?
>The kernel module has full access to your hardware, you don't know what it does exactly.
The same can be said about any other kernel level driver and even about Windows itself.
>People got so complacent in recent years, and this is on a technology forum no less.
What Riot wants to do is not possible with a user level anticheat. Once Windows eventually gets its security improved such that apps can query the integrity of the system Riot would likely be able to get away with a less privileged anticheat.
>I guess today the Sony rootkit[1] would be totally acceptable.
If it didn't try and hide itself I would agree with you.
You don't know what the game will do either. It requires trusting Riot even if there isn't an anticheat.
Also most users will never know what the other kernel level drivers do.
>Would you also support a full cavity search each time you decide to fly a plane?
I don't see how this is related?
>The kernel module has full access to your hardware, you don't know what it does exactly.
The same can be said about any other kernel level driver and even about Windows itself.
>People got so complacent in recent years, and this is on a technology forum no less.
What Riot wants to do is not possible with a user level anticheat. Once Windows eventually gets its security improved such that apps can query the integrity of the system Riot would likely be able to get away with a less privileged anticheat.
>I guess today the Sony rootkit[1] would be totally acceptable.
If it didn't try and hide itself I would agree with you.