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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[–] 15 points 3 months ago (4 children)

What a terribly written article.

So it's bricking an external piece of cheating hardware and not users' actual PCs, or...?

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

    Only the external cheating hardware, it's very misleading (as evidenced by 95% of the commenters on the post thinking its the PC getting bricked)

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