[exikyut]

Two points:

1. I'm reminded of the exploitability of the rootkits folded into games like MapleStory a few years ago. Anybody with the rootkits installed had kernel-level authority available for the taking. Unfortunately don't remember exact details, but my vague memory suggests this was unfixed for years.

2. Link-chaining a bit I got to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rj6ukLPiY10, "The Norwegian CS Cheating Scandal". I didn't watch the video but I did read the top comment, which rightfully highlighted the utter inability for software to detect cheating via DMA (in the noted case over PCI-e, but potentially theoretically doable over ThunderBolt and FireWire too).

Hopefully these rootkits are a bit better at doing one thing and doing it better than the iPhone SecureROM ;)

Most seem to not realize that poking PCI-e isn't that expensive, but thankfully the specialist reverse engineering skills required are still well outside the 14-year-old script kiddie attention span.

[sudosysgen]

You know that most cheats aren't free to begin with? They can actually get quite expensive. No reason you couldn't buy the device.

Cheat production is a very big and very profitable industry.