In that case, the answer is to not use the same code for your dev materials and your live game servers.

The problem was bad application security design, not the cloud services themselves.

Jesus, I can just FEEL your smug face through that post.

How disingenuous.  If it were that simple, then this wouldn’t be controversial to start with.

.... trying to decide if you believe that Riot would dare to do anything like that with everyone trying to catch them doing that exact thing.

Yeah, I was referring to the comments, not the article. And I guess it comes down to what your priorities are. There’s not really a less intrusive way to do effective cheat detection, so if you care strongly about that, then this is probably not that big of an issue. If you don’t care strongly about that, but are…

You know very fucking well that they’re not complaining about people using bots to get ONE switch. They’re complaining about people using bots to buy ALL the switches a company has in stock, creating artificial scarcity, and then turning around and reselling those same switches for double the price, which people will…

Lol. I don’t play Valorant or League, so.... *shrug*. I just hate bandwagons and misinformation.

Well, this should give people the incentive to make sure Riot is keeping their promises: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/04/riot-addresses-kernel-level-driver-concerns-with-expanded-bug-bounties/

When you’re using heuristics to identify something, it’s bad practice to say “hey, this matches one of the typical three characteristics of X, therefore it’s definitely X!” You need it to satisfy a *majority* of the characteristics of X. It’s got no more access than any other driver might, it’s uninstallable through…

And if “no software can ever be fully tested,” what’s even the point in making that distinction? The only two choices, according to you, are “not fully tested” or “not tested at all.” So what is your POINT? That this software is similar to literally all other commercial software in being “not fully tested?”

Well, let’s review. Someone called this software untested. I pointed out that they’d had multiple security firms audit the software, in addition to whatever internal Q&A they inevitably did at riot, to which you replied:

Maybe start off with the first paragraph, instead of cherry-picking whatever subset of information suits your argument.

Yeah, that’s what I said.  No, wait, that isn’t at all what I said.  What I said was that it’s not untested. Not sure how you got from there to wherever you are.

So, by that logic, all software (except the exceedingly simplistic) is untested. Gotcha.

Yeah, I walked right into that one, didn’t I?

I mean, she was. I was just talking to my girlfriend last night about how they did such a good job at making me care about characters that made little to no real impression on me in the original.  They went from “those guys who were with Barret and Cloud in the opening” to people I actually like and care about in this…

Well, better uninstall all of your graphics drivers and any application that asked for admin permissions before installing, then.

What the hell makes you think this is untested? The part where they said they’d gotten multiple security firms to audit it? Or the part where no major software company ever releases anything without testing it first?

I’m not a fan of Riot, nor do I plan on playing this game, but please look at what a rootkit actually is and then tell me how this fits that definition. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rootkit