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> "attempts to control general computation will converge on rootkits" prediction has held up.

If you play video games, you probably have a couple of neat kernel rootkits installed as "anti cheat".

A lot of remote proctoring stuff for exams are looking a lot like rootkits too.

EDR/XDR is also just rootkits. For security. The only thing that can stop a bad guy with a rootkit is a good guy with a rootkit, after all.

>>nibble+(OP)
The remote proctoring stuff is downright dystopian. I bought an extra laptop to do tests; most people can’t do that and have to install this garbage on their daily driver.

Of course, I guess most people don’t care.

>>mwint+Kd
What's hilarious is it doesn't seem to prevent exam cheating in any meaningful way anyway, according to some students I've chatted to.

>>nibble+0l
It really doesn’t. I took an exam in a meeting room at work with huge TVs on the wall… they made me show them the TVs were “unplugged”, so I just unplugged some random thing from the wall and they were happy.

The TVs are hardwired, it’d be trivial to have an accomplice show answers or whatever on them.

>>nibble+(OP)
Kernel rootkits are going to be redundant pretty soon.

There are cheats out there that use video captured by capture cards as input for an AI on a separate computer to actually play the game like a human would. Once that becomes widespread there is no way to stop it, save from banning capture cards entirely.