Buying used CPUs can expose users to existing bans from anti-cheat engines

Buying used CPUs can expose users to existing bans from anti-cheat engines tomshardware.com

Who knew that saving money could potentially come with a hardware ban?

4 points•speckx•about 5 hours ago•2 comments•

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notnullorvoidabout 4 hours ago

> Anti-cheat systems have become controversial recently

Not recently, they have a long history of being controversial.

Ideally we'd have consumer protection laws that prevent companies from doing things like using HWIDs to ban accounts.

BLKNSLVRabout 4 hours ago

Agree that the controversy isn't recent. I haven't been a 'gamer' going on nearly 20 years now, and pumkbuster was controversial for a good few years before I left gaming for the grand journey of parenthood.

And I don't think Sony's rootkit was gaming related, but it was somewhat adjacent. And that was about as controversial as it gets.

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