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by Workaccount2 696 days ago
They need to just make CPU's, GPU's, and memory modules with hardware level anti-cheat. Totally optional purchase, but grants you access to very-difficult-to-cheat-in servers.
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That sort of already exists - I believe a small number of games demand that you have Secure Boot enabled, meaning you should only have a Microsoft-approved kernel and drivers running. And then the anticheat is itself probably kernel level, so can see anything in userspace

It may still be possible to get round this by using your own machine owner key or using PreLoader/shim [1] to sign a hacked Windows kernel

[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Unified_Extensible_Firmware...

Another way to get around it is reading the memory directly with direct memory access (DMA) hardware.
I guess you’ve just invented an Xbox/PlayStation.