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

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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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[–] amju_wolf@pawb.social 7 points 9 months ago

I'd like to add that even if you use full disk encryption and have to enter a password to unlock it they could just install a modified loader that captures your password. Though it's not necessary something I'd worry about from them.

Heck if they wanted, they could use your machine to mine crypto if they wanted to. Or ransom it with encryption of their own. Or get you in legal trouble in so many other ways like putting incriminating files on your machine.

All of that is unfortunately true about any anticheat and pretty much any software you use, really.

Obviously not if you run it unprivileged in a separate OS, but the vast majority of users don't even use more than a single (usually not password protected administrator) account.