# Anticheat privacy

**URL:** https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/anticheat-privacy/21649
**Category:** General
**Tags:** software
**Created:** 2024-10-20T17:48:38Z
**Posts:** 16

## Post 1 by @asanyan — 2024-10-20T17:48:38Z

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?

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## Post 3 by @anon63378630 — 2024-10-20T18:03:02Z

put that shit in a sandbox in a vm or dedicated machine, then you don’t have to worry

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## Post 5 by @anon63378630 — 2024-10-20T18:13:59Z

> [@Anon47486929](#):
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> flatpak be as effective

on its own, absolutely not

I mean sandbox regardless and put on vm or dedicated machine

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## Post 6 by @asanyan — 2024-10-20T18:29:38Z

Even with a sandbox, depending on what compositor is used it might still be able to obtain some sensitive information e.g. screenshots.

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## Post 7 by @anon63378630 — 2024-10-20T18:30:44Z

no sane wayland compositor lets a program arbitrarily see other windows or your screen content without explicit user permission

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## Post 8 by @asanyan — 2024-10-20T18:32:55Z

Then pretty much all of them are insane except for GNOME

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## Post 9 by @anonymous208 — 2024-10-20T18:42:39Z

Proof that it can obtain stuff like screenshots without permission?

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## Post 11 by @anonymous208 — 2024-10-20T18:46:02Z

They seem to be claiming that is the case for a lot of wayland compositors, too

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## Post 12 by @asanyan — 2024-10-20T18:46:25Z

for wlroots compositors: install grim, open a sandboxed shell and give it access to the wayland display, and type grim in the sandboxed terminal

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## Post 13 by @Breeze7846 — 2024-10-20T21:21:26Z

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

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## Post 14 by @anon63378630 — 2024-10-20T22:42:56Z

passthrough is trivial to setup, here is a snippit I modified from the level1techs forum: [vfio.sh · GitHub](https://gist.github.com/SkewedZeppelin/588f64dd886d9bd07312fa8e016831ed)

you can also do single GPU passthrough: [GitHub - QaidVoid/Complete-Single-GPU-Passthrough: Single GPU VFIO Passthrough Guide](https://github.com/QaidVoid/Complete-Single-GPU-Passthrough)

see also: [PCI passthrough via OVMF - ArchWiki](https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PCI_passthrough_via_OVMF)

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## Post 15 by @Breeze7846 — 2024-10-21T03:28:15Z

Would having two OS’s on two different drives (aka dualboot) solve the problem of security/privacy with anticheat?

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## Post 16 by @anon73250778 — 2024-10-21T04:30:18Z

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.