Riot Games‘ kernel-level anti-cheat, Vanguard, has received an update that is allegedly altering system firmware to remove the ability of the user to access certain hardware associated with cheating.
Riot Games quoted one post discussing the anti-cheat, replying “congrats to the owners of a brand new $6k paperweight.” But how exactly does Vanguard’s new system make “paperweights” out of hardware?
What a terribly written article.
So it’s bricking an external piece of cheating hardware and not users’ actual PCs, or…?
Only the external cheating hardware, it’s very misleading (as evidenced by 95% of the commenters on the post thinking its the PC getting bricked)
And they’re not even bricking the cheating devices, just blocking them using hardware features that can be disabled (as long as you don’t want to run vanguard).
It’s not physically bricking anything. It’s a firmware modification that prevents two pieces of hardware from talking to each other.
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