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It is not realistic to expect every game developer to invest a lot of money into security. It's like asking every apartment building to run its own fire departm
by supersing 7mo ago
It is not realistic to expect every game developer to invest a lot of money into security. It's like asking every apartment building to run its own fire department.
The responsibility of securing a platform should not fall on application developers anyway.
- ronsor 7mo agoThe problem is that general purpose computing platforms are not supposed to be secured against the user. That's a WONTFIX.
- direwolf20 7mo agoUser ownership of their devices has been fixed on every platform except PCs.
- hsbauauvhabzb 7mo agoAnd most other device types have a specific purpose, with the exception of mobile phones which were built from the ground up with device control in mind, mobile devices only really support one operating system barring edge case exceptions.
- direwolf20 7mo agoBecause only one was written, but there's more than one because there's LineageOS — if you can bypass Secure Boot.
- hsbauauvhabzb 7mo agoThat an edge case. Linage works on a subset of devices. Find me an amd64 computer that doesn’t support Linux. I think you’d agree that it would be far easier to technically and socially lock mobile devices to signed deployments only, with jailbreaks becoming rarer and more valuable over time, than to do the same with desktop and laptop computers, due to their requirement to support many different functional requirements (PcIe, thunderbolt peripherals, distributed compute, etc). I’m not saying I like this, but I think phones will become a single viable OS and locked down ecosystem in the next 5 years. Desktops will follow, but not at the same rate.
- hsbauauvhabzb 7mo agoIt’s not the nurses job to perform surgery either, that’s why they don’t.
- pjmlp 7mo agoYes it is, and liability across the industry is already late. By the way, in some countries apartment buildings need several licenses, including one from fire department, before been allowed to have people living on them.
- RobotToaster 7mo agoMicrosoft could easily secure windows by blocking all rootkits/"kernel anti cheat". At this point that's probably the best option. Games should never have kernel level access.
- hsbauauvhabzb 7mo agoGames are a multi billion dollar industry that Microsoft has a stake in. A better option would be a ‘games mode’ and a ‘secure mode’.