{"id":2629,"date":"2020-02-04T18:09:17","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T18:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/new-league-of-legend-s-anti-cheat-raises-privacy-concerns"},"modified":"2024-07-20T07:17:37","modified_gmt":"2024-07-20T07:17:37","slug":"new-league-of-legend-s-anti-cheat-raises-privacy-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/video-games\/new-league-of-legend-s-anti-cheat-raises-privacy-concerns","title":{"rendered":"New League of Legends anti-cheat raises privacy concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Riot&#8217;s new anti-cheat will be implemented into League of Legends and Project A<\/li>\n<li>Gives Riot complete control over your system using a &#8216;kernel driver&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>In a blog post Riot attempted to assuage gamers&#8217; fears<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11pt; font-variant:normal; white-space:pre-wrap\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial\"><span style=\"color:#000000\"><span style=\"font-weight:400\"><span style=\"font-style:normal\"><span style=\"text-decoration:none\">League of Legend developers Riot have been developing a pioneering anti-cheat system and want you to know they are not attempting to hack your computer.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11pt; font-variant:normal; white-space:pre-wrap\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial\"><span style=\"color:#000000\"><span style=\"font-weight:400\"><span style=\"font-style:normal\"><span style=\"text-decoration:none\">In a <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/eune.leagueoflegends.com\/en-pl\/news\/dev\/dev-null-anti-cheat-kernel-driver\/\" style=\"text-decoration:none\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt; font-variant:normal; white-space:pre-wrap\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial\"><span style=\"color:#1155cc\"><span style=\"font-weight:400\"><span style=\"font-style:normal\"><span style=\"text-decoration:underline\"><span style=\"-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none\"><span style=\"text-decoration-skip-ink:none\">humorous blog post<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size:11pt; font-variant:normal; white-space:pre-wrap\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial\"><span style=\"color:#000000\"><span style=\"font-weight:400\"><span style=\"font-style:normal\"><span style=\"text-decoration:none\"> Riot&rsquo;s anti-cheat developer Phil Koskinas explained the history of cheats, anti-cheat measures and why Riot has decided to take the measures they have.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div data-oembed-url=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mirageopenguins\/status\/1224444574132686850\">\n<blockquote align=\"center\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Quick read about how our anti-cheat is becoming sentient<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2esDgCTN7R\">https:\/\/t.co\/2esDgCTN7R<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Phil Koskinas (@mirageopenguins) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mirageopenguins\/status\/1224444574132686850?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 3, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p style=\"line-height:1.38\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt; font-variant:normal; white-space:pre-wrap\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial\"><span style=\"color:#000000\"><span style=\"font-weight:400\"><span style=\"font-style:normal\"><span style=\"text-decoration:none\">To make it as simple as possible &#8211; applications on your computer run in user-mode, and can only interact with your windows operating system in a restrictive way. This is the same access that Riot&rsquo;s current anti-cheat system has.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height:1.38\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt; font-variant:normal; white-space:pre-wrap\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial\"><span style=\"color:#000000\"><span style=\"font-weight:400\"><span style=\"font-style:normal\"><span style=\"text-decoration:none\">This system has obvious faults because cheat developers don&rsquo;t play by the rules, by finding exploits and vulnerabilities in Windows they run their cheats and &lsquo;anti-anticheats&rsquo; in kernel mode &#8211; an area of your system that Riot can currently not monitor and which Koskinkas likens to &ldquo;giving cheaters a much-needed, twelve-stroke handicap.&rdquo;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height:1.38\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt; font-variant:normal; white-space:pre-wrap\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial\"><span style=\"color:#000000\"><span style=\"font-weight:400\"><span style=\"font-style:normal\"><span style=\"text-decoration:none\">Riot&rsquo;s plan to counter this is by creating an anti-cheat that has access to your computer&rsquo;s kernel using a &lsquo;kernel driver&rsquo; which may be a cause for concern for some users &#8211; as giving kernel access to a program gives it complete control over your system.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div data-oembed-url=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UnusualFlandre\/status\/1224524904168640518\">\n<blockquote align=\"center\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I&#8217;m sorry, but what if I don&#8217;t consent to granting Riot Games kernel access to my computer?<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Cap (@UnusualFlandre) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UnusualFlandre\/status\/1224524904168640518?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 4, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p style=\"line-height:1.38\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt; font-variant:normal; white-space:pre-wrap\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial\"><span style=\"color:#000000\"><span style=\"font-weight:400\"><span style=\"font-style:normal\"><span style=\"text-decoration:none\">Koskinas attempted to allay those concerns, writing that &ldquo;this isn&rsquo;t giving us any surveillance capability we didn&rsquo;t already have. [&#8230;] The purpose of this upgrade is to monitor system state for integrity (so we can trust our data) and to make it harder for cheaters to tamper with our games.&rdquo;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height:1.38\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt; font-variant:normal; white-space:pre-wrap\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial\"><span style=\"color:#000000\"><span style=\"font-weight:400\"><span style=\"font-style:normal\"><span style=\"text-decoration:none\">Riot&rsquo;s new anti-cheat system is expected to be rolled out in Project A, their new FPS game set to come out later this year, before being added to League of Legends at a later date.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height:1.38\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"line-height:1.38; margin-top:24px; margin-bottom:8px\"><span style=\"font-size:16pt; font-variant:normal; white-space:pre-wrap\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial\"><span style=\"color:#000000\"><span style=\"font-weight:400\"><span style=\"font-style:normal\"><span style=\"text-decoration:none\">Should Riot&rsquo;s New Anti-Cheat System Be A Cause For Concern?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:16pt; font-variant:normal; white-space:pre-wrap\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial\"><span style=\"color:#000000\"><span style=\"font-weight:400\"><span style=\"font-style:normal\"><span style=\"text-decoration:none\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Project A League of Legends Riot New Anti Cheat System\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-cf.ginx.tv\/imgcdn\/ZyaQE3hCwNQXEHUU3xBfjU-9KH5NURtEFye7mGNkUE0\/rs:fill:0:0:1\/g:ce\/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ2lueC50di91cGxvYWRzL1Byb2plY3RfQV9BbnRpLWNoZWF0LmpwZw\" style=\"width: 600px; height: 338px;\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height:1.38\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt; font-variant:normal; white-space:pre-wrap\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial\"><span style=\"color:#000000\"><span style=\"font-weight:400\"><span style=\"font-style:normal\"><span style=\"text-decoration:none\">Riot wants to be able to have complete control of your computer in the battle against cheaters. And while it is hard to question the employees of Riot &#8211; questions have to be asked about how much control they have other how their products are used.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11pt; font-variant:normal; white-space:pre-wrap\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial\"><span style=\"color:#000000\"><span style=\"font-weight:400\"><span style=\"font-style:normal\"><span style=\"text-decoration:none\">Riot has in the past shown their acquiescence to politically sensitive issues for Tencent. They released a <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/2019\/10\/11\/20910127\/riot-games-hong-kong-protests-statement\" style=\"text-decoration:none\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt; font-variant:normal; white-space:pre-wrap\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial\"><span style=\"color:#1155cc\"><span style=\"font-weight:400\"><span style=\"font-style:normal\"><span style=\"text-decoration:underline\"><span style=\"-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none\"><span style=\"text-decoration-skip-ink:none\">statement<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size:11pt; font-variant:normal; white-space:pre-wrap\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial\"><span style=\"color:#000000\"><span style=\"font-weight:400\"><span style=\"font-style:normal\"><span style=\"text-decoration:none\"> saying that casters and players shouldn&rsquo;t share &ldquo;sensitive topics,&rdquo; such as politics or religion in live broadcasts &#8211; prompted when viewers noticed casters weren&#8217;t saying the full name of the &#8220;Hong Kong Attitude&#8221; during official League of Legends broadcasts.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height:1.38\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt; font-variant:normal; white-space:pre-wrap\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial\"><span style=\"color:#000000\"><span style=\"font-weight:400\"><span style=\"font-style:normal\"><span style=\"text-decoration:none\">This is all part of a much bigger story between the US and China and the growing trade war these countries are engaged in. Two of China&rsquo;s biggest tech companies &#8211; Huawei and ZTE are currently attempting to <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/chinas-tech-giants-have-a-second-job-helping-the-government-see-everything-1512056284\" style=\"text-decoration:none\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt; font-variant:normal; white-space:pre-wrap\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial\"><span style=\"color:#1155cc\"><span style=\"font-weight:400\"><span style=\"font-style:normal\"><span style=\"text-decoration:underline\"><span style=\"-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none\"><span style=\"text-decoration-skip-ink:none\">stop the US from designating<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size:11pt; font-variant:normal; white-space:pre-wrap\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial\"><span style=\"color:#000000\"><span style=\"font-weight:400\"><span style=\"font-style:normal\"><span style=\"text-decoration:none\"> them as &lsquo;national security risks.&rsquo; A status given to them after long-standing concerns of backdoor access hardwired into their products and ultimately controlled by the Chinese authorities.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height:1.38\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt; font-variant:normal; white-space:pre-wrap\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial\"><span style=\"color:#000000\"><span style=\"font-weight:400\"><span style=\"font-style:normal\"><span style=\"text-decoration:none\">Tencent too has a long history of cooperating with the Chinese government with the information flow between private companies and the government more of a <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/chinas-tech-giants-have-a-second-job-helping-the-government-see-everything-1512056284\" style=\"text-decoration:none\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt; font-variant:normal; white-space:pre-wrap\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial\"><span style=\"color:#1155cc\"><span style=\"font-weight:400\"><span style=\"font-style:normal\"><span style=\"text-decoration:underline\"><span style=\"-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none\"><span style=\"text-decoration-skip-ink:none\">revolving door<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size:11pt; font-variant:normal; white-space:pre-wrap\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial\"><span style=\"color:#000000\"><span style=\"font-weight:400\"><span style=\"font-style:normal\"><span style=\"text-decoration:none\"> than a request for access &#8211; data which is used to &ldquo;hunt down criminal suspects and silence political dissent.&rdquo;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height:1.38\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt; font-variant:normal; white-space:pre-wrap\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial\"><span style=\"color:#000000\"><span style=\"font-weight:400\"><span style=\"font-style:normal\"><span style=\"text-decoration:none\">This may seem like doom-mongering and it has to be noted though that Riot is not the first anti-cheat system to use a &lsquo;kernel driver&rsquo; 3rd party anti-cheat systems such as EasyAntiCheat, Battleye, and Xigncode3 have been using them for a while.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height:1.38\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt; font-variant:normal; white-space:pre-wrap\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial\"><span style=\"color:#000000\"><span style=\"font-weight:400\"><span style=\"font-style:normal\"><span style=\"text-decoration:none\">But in the ever-escalating battle against cheaters how badly do we want to stop them and at what cost?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11pt; font-variant:normal; white-space:pre-wrap\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial\"><span style=\"color:#000000\"><span style=\"font-weight:400\"><span style=\"font-style:normal\"><span style=\"text-decoration:none\">Ultimately it may not be a question, we the gamers, have to answer. In Riot&rsquo;s announcement, they stressed that we had nothing to worry about, but it may be the worlds&rsquo; governments they have to convince.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\nCorrection: the original version of this article stated that Riot Games banned professional Hearthstone player&nbsp;Ng &#8220;Blitzchung&#8221;&nbsp;Wai Chung, this is incorrect. Blizzard Activision, the developers of Hearthstone, were responsible for the ban. Tencent has stakes in both companies, owning 94% of Riot Games and 4.9% of Blizzard Activision.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Riot&#8217;s new anti-cheat will be implemented into League of Legends and Project A Gives Riot complete control over your system using a &#8216;kernel driver&#8217; In&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1325,"featured_media":2630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-video-games"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>New League of Legends anti-cheat raises privacy concerns - GINX TV<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2629\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"New League of Legends anti-cheat raises privacy concerns - 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