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EA is hiring a Senior Anti-Cheat Engineer to lead development of a native ARM64 driver for their Javelin kernel anti-cheat system and start laying groundwork for Linux/Proton support (lemmy.ml)
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https://jobs.ea.com/en_US/careers/JobDetail/Senior-Anti-Cheat-Engineer-ARM64/212781

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[–] atkdef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The problem is, this may actually NOT about anti-cheat. Just like, age verification is justified by "child protection", anti-cheat may be a gateway to gradually take away the control over the kernel.

As some other people said, if they want effective anti-cheat, why not make it server-side? Maybe I worry too much, but the history tells us these companies likely not act in good faith.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 1 points 1 day ago

Which i s why i really think it's a leap to assume that hiring a single engineer means they are trying to modify the kernel. I really doubt any modifications would make it to the kernel for anti cheat. Server side or something in user space is very likely what they'll be doing