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by LordOfWolves 1805 days ago
In the meantime, most users with that anticheat software installed presume that it is simply looking out for them, in terms of eliminating cheaters in __ video game, and could not possibly be doing the nefarious things you mention. Yet, all of us working in software know this is not a far stretch, given the application is already designed to gather information about the environment surrounding the running game. We have a long way to go with software, put simply..
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This isn't a stretch, this is actually what anticheat software does. The valorant one also uploads driver listings and driver contents!
Pretty much this. I've worked in the field. If you do development work, drivers, and/or have installed certificates or root CAs that are "rare" or not installed on a large majority of machines, they absolutely WILL be uploaded.

If you are detected to be a reverse engineer based on running processes or otherwise, even if it has nothing to do with the game, expect significantly more surveillance too, up to and including literal streaming shellcode running from the server at the highest privilege level at any time, none of which you can control.