[daedrdev]

It's the endgame of cheats. If it's not supreme over all programs, you can cheat by chaining things when it isn't looking or before the anitcheat starts. By running a service from startup with maximal privilege, they can prevent cheats at the expense of running a service from startup as low at maximal privilege.

Arguably they could have already gotten all sensitive user data without that privilege if their program was hacked

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You can already pipe your video output to another box, and add stuff like hitboxes. I think a few monitors are starting to build this in.