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?
if I’m reading this right there’s no hardware damage at all, the “paperweight” comment just means they’ve successfully mitigated against a specific device, rendering it useless for this purpose, but it still works as intended against vulnerable games.
Kind of a nothing burger honestly, if I’m understanding right. Scary that they have that much access tho, which is the real problem, since they’re leaving a whole bunch of other peoples’ front doors wide open