Hi, I’ve been wondering about the invasiveness of anticheat products when it comes to user privacy, particularly anticheat solutions that currently support linux - EAC and Battleye.
Anyone has insight on what information these programs currently aim to collect on the user?
put that shit in a sandbox in a vm or dedicated machine, then you don’t have to worry
on its own, absolutely not
I mean sandbox regardless and put on vm or dedicated machine
Even with a sandbox, depending on what compositor is used it might still be able to obtain some sensitive information e.g. screenshots.
no sane wayland compositor lets a program arbitrarily see other windows or your screen content without explicit user permission
Then pretty much all of them are insane except for GNOME
Proof that it can obtain stuff like screenshots without permission?
They seem to be claiming that is the case for a lot of wayland compositors, too
for wlroots compositors: install grim, open a sandboxed shell and give it access to the wayland display, and type grim in the sandboxed terminal
Is there a guide we can follow? Though many of us use VMs, a gaminng VM has special requirements that a lot of us may struggle with, for example GPU passthrough
passthrough is trivial to setup, here is a snippit I modified from the level1techs forum: vfio.sh · GitHub
you can also do single GPU passthrough: GitHub - QaidVoid/Complete-Single-GPU-Passthrough: Single GPU VFIO Passthrough Guide
see also: PCI passthrough via OVMF - ArchWiki
Would having two OS’s on two different drives (aka dualboot) solve the problem of security/privacy with anticheat?
I think only if LUKS is used in the Linux drive.
Though I cant see the anticheat going so fas as enabling EXT4, BTRFS, etc just so to probe around at that level.
You should be fine. Probably.
I would find it ironic and funny if anticheat will go so far as to install kernel level stuff look around other Linux file systems meanwhile Windows wont touch it with a 10foot pole.