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?

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    3 hours ago

    Oh and I just realized. I meant kernel level anticheat should be illegal. I didn’t make myself clear. I apologize. I run Linux though, so doesn’t affect me. :-D