Making it super simple, it runs with full access on your machine, always. It can fuck anything up, and see everything. It can get your browser history, banking details or private messages you enter, activate your webcam or mic without you knowing, or brick your computer even.

And you can't even check what it's really doing on your computer because it's a crime under US law.

Finally, it can get hacked and other people than the creator can do all these to your computer as well,as it already happened once.

[–] scarilog@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

And you can't even check what it's really doing on your computer because it's a crime under US law.

Is this specifically for kernel level anticheat? Because this isn't a thing for software in general right??

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 4 points 3 weeks ago

It's a thing for any measure said to enforce copyright under the DMCA.

So it's a thing for most proprietary software.

[–] Miaou@jlai.lu 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

If anything reverse engineering is more permissible in the USA than many other places, IIRC

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 4 points 3 weeks ago

Not if you're running afoul of the DMCA.