Riot 免費新game valorant 免費送埋後門rootkit俾你電腦

https://www.osnews.com/story/131665/riot-games-maker-of-league-of-legends-installs-rootkit-with-their-new-hit-game-valorant/
Thom Holwerda 2020-04-15 Games 28 Comments
If an application from a Chinese company installed a kernel driver onto your system with complete access to your computer, but they pinky-promised not to abuse this access and power, would you install the application? Well, if you’re interested in Riot Games’ new hit game Valorant, that’s exactly the question you’re going to have to answer.

Riot Games, the company behind one of the most popular games in the world, League of Legends, recently starting publicly beta testing their new game, Valorant. Two months ago, the company penned a rather condescending blog post detailing their future anti-cheat technology, which would include a Windows kernel driver (running in ring 0, in x86 parlance). Valorant is their first game using this kernel driver, and as it turns out, this kernel driver starts at boot, and due to its very nature has full system access, even when you’re not running Valorant.

According to Riot Games, we just have to trust them on their blue eyes that their kernel driver is fully secure and won’t be exploited by malicious third parties, and that the company won’t use it to spy on people or otherwise violate their privacy. Riot states on Reddit that “multiple external security research teams” have reviewed the driver, but as far as I can tell, these reviews have not been published for public vetting.

What we’re dealing with here is a rootkit, a method more and more anti-cheat systems are employing in the fight against cheating. The argument is that game developers need full, complete, and total access to your system in order to prevent you from cheating, and a kernel driver is how they do it.

There’s a long history of these sorts of things going horribly, horribly wrong. We all still remember the Sony rootkit debacle, where Sony CDs installed rootkits on users’ computers that ended up being exploited left, right, and centre by malicious parties. In 2016, Capcom installed a similar rootkit meant for anti-cheat with Street Fight V, which was an absolute security train wreck. And closer to home for Riot, the game client for their very own League of Legends installed crypto miners on users’ computers in the Philippines.

Despite the inherent dangers in installing closed-source security-by-obscurity rootkits, Riot is dead-set on continuing to use them, and it’s only a matter of time before their rootkit will be forced upon League of Legends players as well – which in my case means I won’t be able to play League of Legends anymore even if I wanted their rootkit on my computer, since I play on Linux through Wine/Lutris, which doesn’t support kernel drivers at all.

Players of Riot’s games will have to ask themselves if they trust Riot to install a rootkit with complete and full access to their system – browsing history, chat logs, email, everything. You have to trust Riot when they say the rootkit is “secure” and won’t be exploited by malicious third parties, and that the company itself won’t use it to invade your privacy.

Interesting sidenote: Riot Games is owned by the Chinese company Tencent, the company behind WeChat. Tencent is, for all intents and purposes, an arm of the Chinese government, so not only do you have to trust Riot Games, you also have to trust their owner, Tencent, as well as who Tencent literally answers to – the Chinese government.

I’m not going to tell anyone what they should or should not do with their computers, and if you trust Riot, Tencent, and the Chinese government enough to let them install a rootkit on your computer, then that’s your right to do so. However, I do feel users need to be at least aware of the choice they’re making.

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騰訊不了

For those that don't know here's some tl;dr info on the subject:

1.Valorant is a game made by Riot! Games (think: Leage of Legends) which is owned by Tencent.

2.Ring-0 is a technical way of saying administrator access. The program has the same access to your computer's information as you.

3.This anti-cheat runs at start up and is always running if your computer is on, not just when the game is running.

4.While the chances of China wanting the personal info of RandomGamer2000 in america is low, if any hacker, specifically state based hackers, wanted access to your system, they can just figure out how to tap into this anti-cheat and then they have root access to your computer.

5.This gives whoever has access to this anticheat file the ability to track and record aaaaany data or information on your PC at any time because this kit runs 24/7, not just when the game is running.

6.This game can't be run in a VM which means you have to install this anti-cheat on your main system and can't run the game on a win10 VM if you run linux or something.

Edit: obligatory r/AwardSpeechEdits

個anti cheat 仲會影響埋其他game ge performance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esDWbXLWfk8

有印度人拍片叫人唔好裝呢隻GAME,因為背後係大陸tencent
個xqc 鬼佬打機網紅話:防到外掛無所謂,下面d comment 屌緊佢無腦

XQC source?

When you talk about Tencent and personal security. One cannot be too "conspiracy - ish" You're just talking about facts.

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我以為呢條係印度佬片 冇野了

有冇人玩都好 唔該大家轉貼去其他forum 又好 twitter又好

可唔可以解釋下

簡單黎講 你裝valorant 就會裝埋佢個防外掛 跟住會送埋個後門俾你
個防外掛係一開機就會開
唔單止防唔到外掛 day 1 wall hack
仲會影響幾他game ge 運行
個後門係可以Access到你電腦最底層 可以任由操作
即使riot 唔care tencent 唔care 你d data
如果有hacker hack到就gg

thanks 巴打

講真
如果唔係支那公司出

本意其實好

笑撚死

佢淨係一開機果陣launch埋已經低能啦，成個監控軟件咁

有時就係唔想放權比某人,某公司,某政權
因為你唔知邊日佢care個陣就會勒死你

LoR有冇

仲要隻game beta 已經有cheat 紅底公司