The stakes for playing video games competitively have gotten higher.

There's a whole industry of people who develop cheats for sale. Hi and welcome to Sabirism's malicious life B-sites. I'm Ran Lipp. A few months ago, EA, publisher of the FIFA game series, Madden NFL, the Sims and other well-known computer games, announced

that its software will include a kernel mode anti- cheat component.

This announcement made some people very uneasy, to put it mildly.

Take for example, the Reddit post by user S.E. Gopher titled The Insanity of EA's anti- cheat system.

Quote, after reading about the latest headline on EA's new anti- cheat system,

I feel compelled to beg the gaming community not to install any EA games that use this system.

Know that these kernel-level systems are extremely dangerous. Think twice about any application that requests

kernel modifications and whether you want that a developer to have complete

access to your system." What made U.S. E. Gopher so apprehensive about this new software?

I mean, nobody likes cheaters, especially in video games.

We play games to have fun, and nothing hurts the joy of playing a good game

more than losing to a cheater. And when it comes to professional e-sports tournaments, cheating is an even bigger issue.

That is why EA is not the only publisher to implement kernel mode anti- cheat software in their

games.

League of Legends and Valorant, for example, use similar software.

So what's the problem?

The answer is kernel mode.

So what is kernel mode. So what is kernel mode?

Operating systems serve as an abstraction layer between applications and hardware. With an

operating system, a game developer, for example, doesn't need to know how to write bits to a hard drive.

She can just ask the operating system to save a given file and the operating system takes care of the rest.

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