Post #2663415

2026-04-04 14:48 UTC

I'm not the most familiar with hardware level stuff. With the security disabled as in the article, can a malevolent actor rewrite firmware or leave the equivalent of an undetectable rootkit on your hardware? It would be mildly amusing to see an entire generation of pirates fuck up here, but also reminds me of the arguments regarding the intel cpus having a secondary, unknown firmware in the form of the management thingamajig.

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@frongt@lemmy.zip 2026-04-04 17:29

Firmware, unlikely. Rootkit, probably. The most likely attack is plain old malware. Attacks relying on those security features being disabled are uncommon. However! If a malicious actor says "hey here's a guide to defeat denuvo on the latest game, and here's the crack', and the guide tells you to disable certain security features, the crack can contain malware specifically crafted to exploit that scenario. It's one of the reasons that guides saying "disable uac, disable antivirus, run as admin" are a huge bright red flag.

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@BladeFederation@piefed.social 2026-04-04 17:27

Very much possible, yes. I don't think any game is worth the risk. Even if you have a PC dedicated to just gaming, buying new hardware if it gets borked is more expensive than just buying the game. Or playing the hundreds of great games kn existence without Denuvo.

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