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[–] 126 points 4 months ago (1 child)

Ye fuck your legitimate customers even more why don't you

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  • [–] 121 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    So, punish paying customers because your DRM got broken? Got it!

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  • [–] 50 points 4 months ago

    Bold of you to assume anyone would update to those versions

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  • [–] 47 points 4 months ago (10 children)

    It has in fact not been cracked in all single player games it previously protected. The hypervisor bypass method is, crucially, not a crack.

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  • [–] 38 points 4 months ago (9 children)

    It also requires me to do things to my system that I'm not comfortable doing, so it's not an option for me.

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  • [–] 14 points 4 months ago (8 children)

    Can you explain this to me like I'm 12? Asking for a 12-yo friend.

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  • [–] 23 points 4 months ago (7 children)

    The hypervisor bypass requires you to give a third-party program the highest level of security access your operating system has. The kind of access you have to reboot your system to grant because it can't be done while the OS's security system is currently running. It is extremely inadvisable to do this ever, for any reason, unless you are an educated expert or the system is disposable.

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  • [–] 10 points 4 months ago* (2 children)

    You should read the article.

    Version 3 of the bypass only requires you disable core isolation.

    Still increasing your attack surface, but dramatically less than the earlier method that you're referencing.

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

    Remember how gamers just DO this for Vanguard

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    I used to roll my eyes at the classic parental "if your friends jumped off a bridge would you jump too?" and how obviously stupid the idea was.

    Used to.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago* (1 child)

    That only works on kids who've yet to experience their first bridge jump, frankly. As soon as I found out how to do it properly, that adage was as hollow & out-of-touch as "finish your plate", "boys'll be boys", "do as I say", et al.

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  • [–] 30 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    The team that has been doing these Hypervisor cracks allegedly already said they have a solution for this.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago

    It certainly helps that none of these "protections" are for the end-user, just the shareholders, but the whole thing requires those same consumers to blithely just go along with this fucknugget concept of a "service" and that façade is slipping... 🤞🏼

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

    Not cracked, bypassed . That's an important distinction.

    The hypervisor bypass only works if you're on Windows, and it opens up a huge security hole when you use it.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    I don’t use windows, so these don’t help me, but I’d just air gap the system and wipe it before connecting to a network.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago*

    Locks deny* the honest.

    Until the locks aren't provided by the honest.

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