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Call of Duty and Battlefield 6 will both require Secure Boot on Windows (www.theverge.com)

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[+] SalamenceFury@lemmy.world -15 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Every Riot game requires Secure Boot for Vanguard to work. So does Tarkov and a lot of other games. It's not unique to those two.

And what the fuck would they want with your computer anyways? Are you afraid they're gonna steal the porn you stored on it? Secure Boot is literally a few checks on boot and the anti-cheat simply verifies these checks. There's nothing nefarious here, this is a lot less invasive than Riot Vanguard.

[-] FluorideMind@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago

EA Gets hacked and all the extra info they have been storing on me goes right to the hackers. It's also a huge back door they could sell to shady 3 letter agencies.

[-] SalamenceFury@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

Valid concerns, but Secure Boot does not influence that outcome. The root access is the most egregious thing here, not Secure Boot.

[-] Don_alForno@feddit.org 3 points 2 days ago

They are using this to leverage their way into control over your system. They are trying to become the iOS of PC's, where you can't install or run anything Microsoft didn't collect protection money on.

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