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Lastest Riot Vanguard Update Can Brick Your Hardware (If You're a Cheater) (insider-gaming.com)
submitted 3 months ago by to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca
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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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[–] 42 points 3 months ago (5 children)

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

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (4 children)

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

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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