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Riot Games‘ kernel-level anti-cheat, Vanguard, has received an update that is allegedly altering system firmware to remove the ability of the user to access certain hardware associated with cheating.

Riot Games quoted one post discussing the anti-cheat, replying “congrats to the owners of a brand new $6k paperweight.” But how exactly does Vanguard’s new system make “paperweights” out of hardware?

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[-] ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world 39 points 1 day ago

Cheating or not, if they destroy property, it's illegal and unethical.

[-] vithigar@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago

Good thing they didn't then. Nothing was actually bricked, people are misusing the term.

[-] ne0n@lemmy.world 7 points 11 hours ago

Still way too much access. Lock them out of the fucking kernel.

[-] vithigar@lemmy.ca 3 points 10 hours ago

I agree. I'm not saying kernel level anti-cheat is acceptable, but the reporting on this has been a disaster. Making things up to try to make them look worse doesn't actually help anyone.

[-] omarfw@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago

does non-kernal level anticheat work anymore if basically all cheaters operate at the kernel level at this point?

this post was submitted on 22 May 2026
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