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Gigachadtoday at 1:11 AM2 repliesview on HN

I can’t see it happening until valve adds some kind of trusted compute environment. I’m imagining online games could have a flag which enforces secure boot, boot chain attestation, and disables multi tasking features. So while you are playing the game it becomes a single task device, but after you quit it’s fully unlocked again to do whatever you want.


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ChocolateGodtoday at 7:37 AM

This is the main problem why anti cheats are currenty blocking SteamOS.

I don't think you'd need to block multi tasking though, but the kernel would need to prevent or tamper root access so it couldn't modify the game memory.

Perz1valtoday at 8:03 AM

You can't block multitasking, the largest multiplayers have huge crowds who play with friends and talk on discord.

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