Cheating was solved before any of this rootkit level malware horseshit.
Community ran servers with community administration who actually cared about showing up and removing bad actors and cheaters.
Plenty of communities are still demonstrating this exact fact today.
Companies could 100% recreate this solution with fully hosted servers, with an actually staffed moderation department, but that slightly reduces profit margins so fuck you. Keep in mind community servers ran on donations most of the time. That's the level of profit they would lose.
Companies completely removed community servers as an option instead, because allowing you to run your own servers means you could possibly play the game with skins you haven't paid for!!! Oh no!!! Getting enjoyment without paying for it!!!
All software attempts at anti-cheat are impossible. Even fully attested consoles have had cheats and other ways of getting an advantage that you shouldn't have.
Cheating isn't defined by software. Cheating is a social problem that can only be solved socially. The status quo 20 years ago was better.
> I've since learned that anything heavily regulated like hospitals and banks will have security procedures catering to compliance, not actual security.
I personally came to that conclusion thanks to the GrapheneOS situation regarding device attestation. Insecure devices get full features from some apps because they are certified, although they cite security, while GrapheneOS get half featured apps because it's "insecure" (read, doesn't have the Google certification, but are actually the most secure devices you can get, worldwide)
It's related, but GP is still right to bring it up - it's the one question that is most important wrt. security, and also conveniently the least often asked: security for who, and from what? "Security" isn't an absolute good.
Play Integrity certifies (and banks/etc approve) that Android 8.0 (oreo) unpatched for several years, full of vulnerabilities for RCE, 0-click, privilege escalation, etc, so full of holes it's trivial to get a root and then hide it (or use leaked cert), is absolutely a-ok, safe to use and secure for user.
Thanks, I did not know this existed and I find it awesome. How was the experience using it? I wonder if it's well maintained or if it has any annoying quirks.
> When viewing a web page in a text-based browser, you essentially get plain HTML, no CSS, no JS. There is some “styling”, a result of the elements’ semantics, but don’t expect anything fancy, we are down to colors, indentation, and centered text.
