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Steam games will now need to fully disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages (www.gamingonlinux.com)
submitted 3 weeks ago by ampersandrew@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world
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Now if only they could more clearly communicate when games are playable offline.

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[โ€“] MoonHawk@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Well... kernel level software can access everything on your computer. That includes other partitions and unmounted drives

[โ€“] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Only if those other partitions are not encrypted. Sure, it could still wipe them - but that's something that backups are good for, and something you would certainly notice immediately :)