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[–] zurohki@aussie.zone 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Microsoft is moving away from allowing anything to run with those low level permissions after that CrowdStrike incident where rogue security software bricked millions of Windows PCs, so that might take out kernel anticheat as collateral damage.

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 2 points 23 hours ago

While I'd love to see this, they also walked that back following lobbying by Antivirus vendors. So shit will continue to roll