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		stavros 8 hours ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How kernel anti-cheats work But if you can get in before the OS, you can change what it does. You'd need attestation in the hardware itself so the server can know that what's running isn't signed by Microsoft's key, for example.

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charcircuit 7 hours ago [–]

Attestation is how the user mode anticheat would prove that it is running on a secure system / unmodified game.

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