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CachyOS is adding a dedicated EACv2-compatible kernel plus a Secure Boot setup guide so users can optionally meet Epic’s new EACv2 requirements without changing their normal optimized kernel. (github.com)
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https://github.com/CachyOS/linux-cachyos/pull/1084

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[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 34 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

The problem is not the high-level solution. If the anti-cheat does what they claim -- great.

If.

The problem is that EACv2 itself is unverified machine code running with elevated privileges. Unless the source code is released, it will be impossible to know what kinds of shenanigans it engages in. It demands that users trust it implicitly, along with the people and clankers that wrote it, the mistakes they made, and the people and interests they are beholden to.

Trust should be earned, and the fact that people have been indoctrinated to give it away freely should be deeply concerning to everyone.

[–] Limonene@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

If you wanted to test it, you could try sandboxing it to run as an unprivileged user with access to nothing else on the operating system. They claim it will run without needing sudo or root.

I'm not gonna test it though. I'm not willing to use a distro that doesn't let me compile and install my own kernel modules.

[edit] I read a bit more, looks like they are allowing unprivileged code into the kernel. That's apparently what eBPF does.

Stay far away from this project.

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

what eBPF does

Holy shit, that's like curl | sudo bash on steroids. Fucking hilarious.