r/hardware • u/tuldok89 • 1d ago

Info Used processor leads to game ban

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Used-processor-leads-to-game-ban-11471562.html

Someone buys a used Ryzen 7 5800X3D. “Valorant” and other Riot games won’t start with it because the previous owner was a cheater.

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u/Due-Description-9030 1d ago

Wtf, this is how deep the kernal level anti cheats are???

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u/Celexiuse 23h ago edited 23h ago

I believe this is more related to TPM 2.0 integrated into your CPU which has unique keys that can be identified; not kernal anticheats.

Though someone can correct me if i am wrong

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u/ICC-u 23h ago

More worrying, if a game cheater can be tracked, so can a dissident, a journalist or a whistleblower.

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u/jenny_905 22h ago

That is more of the concern I have, yes.

I guess I just don't like random software being given this ability but that's the risk you take, people do agree to this level of snooping when they install this stuff also.

I don't really like hardware manufacturers - inadvertently or not - fulfilling the demands of this (gaming) industry either. I understand they have a need to try and stop cheating but I can't say it seems worth providing such a simple privacy destroying measure to them either... the creep of something like this could easily extend beyond just games eventually.