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https://www.riotgames.com/en/news/vanguard-security-update-motherboard
I am so deeply annoyed that
Vanguard demands this level of control over user systems
Vanguard seems to be the only entity handling a threat vector most people simply ignore. I suspect not even crowdstrike and the like could handle malicious pci devices. Well, vanguard can't either, it's just a cat and mouse game. But they are definitely trying in an area where most seem to have given up, but it's absurd that it's a fucking game anticheat that's doing this.
Vanguard is proven spyware. If you installed that shit, I'd wipe the OS and reflash the BIOS.
Do you have a source of this information?
No, but it feels right and it sounds cool.
It is spyware by design, but whether it's being used maliciously is still in question.
It does send encrypted traffic to China, though, and while that alone isn't proof of nefarious behavior (could be anonymous metadata/logs for development purposes), it's extremely suspicious
I was just memeing bro.