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@FrostedYukio @HoodiKarmea Oh, another thing: It is not illegal for you to spread or distribute any piece of functional software, even malware! What's illegal is UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS INTO A COMPUTER SYSTEM. When you downloaded Vanguard, Agreed to the ToS, and accepted the UAC prompt: YOU AUTHORIZED IT!

@FrostedYukio @HoodiKarmea this retarded "soft bricked" narrative is like saying HDCP "soft bricks" capture cards. no. no it doesn't do that. and if you think it does, you are a moron.

so now do people believe kernal level anticheat is malware? this is illegal in multiple countries, but they'll get away with it because they're owned by the Chinese government

@GalbrenaMidriff @SkinSpotlights define "process hollowing," malware understander.

@SkinSpotlights Is shamelessly cocksucking a multi-million dollar company over their malware Anti-cheat really necessary? The issue isn't banning cheaters. It's the ability of a simple anti-cheat in a fckin game to have the authority to do hardware shutdowns instead of simple hardware bans.

Love how info surrounding a Vanguard update went from "It stops DMA Hardware from communicating" to misinformation of "ItS bRIcKIng PEoPlEs cOmputErs"

@0xDarrk @riotgames you cannot hotwire a car by taking a fucking sledgehammer to the ignition. if you get IOMMU blocked and you're retarded enough to keep running your DMA through it whatever instability happens is on you.

@riotgames so basically you're saying that the claim the cheaters' are making about their PCs where they are having to reinstall the operating system fully because their NVMEs/SATA SSDs had their firmwares fucked over by this malicious action is false?

Well, that escalated quickly. There’s been a wave of claims by cheaters about Vanguard “bricking” their PCs, so let’s clear that up: Vanguard does not damage hardware or disable your devices. The photo we posted is a picture of cheat hardware devices that are sold explicitly for cheating in VALORANT (not normal PCs or PC components). Through our latest updates, Vanguard now makes those devices worthless for VAL, but does not in any way brick PCs or PC components or PC software. Our latest update enforces standard platform security features, like the Input-Output Memory Management Unit (IOMMU), on accounts identified as using Direct Memory Access (DMA) cheating devices. These protections are already part of modern systems and when enabled, they block DMA cheat devices (such as those shown in the photo) from accessing memory in downstream applications, like our games. If a cheat setup continues attempting to cheat after those protections are enabled, the system may generate hardware faults or instability. This is expected behavior under IOMMU when attempts are made to read protected memory. Disabling IOMMU allows the cheat device to function again, but IOMMU will still be required to play our games. This means the cheat device won’t work with our games, but your PC isn’t “bricked.” We would not, and cannot, impact your PC’s functionality in any other fashion. This functionality only applies to systems attempting to use DMA cheat devices, and players who are not using DMA-based cheat setups are not affected. We’ll keep investing in anti-cheat to protect competitive integrity, and we’ll keep being as transparent as possible about how those systems work.

@ZacharyCarreiro @KyouKunDesuwa @crash @riotgames yeah, retard, it's a tweet. not real life.

@lucedeucee @KyouKunDesuwa @crash @riotgames That's not what the tweet says

congrats to the owners of a brand new $6k paperweight

@Connor973245 @KyouKunDesuwa @crash @riotgames no, you disable IOMMU in your BIOS and uninstall vanguard in the situation that whatever shitty DMA you had kept attacking from more and more vectors on your motherboard that caused your operating system to reject it.

@lucedeucee @KyouKunDesuwa @crash @riotgames If you read the article Vanguard blocks the DMA even on systems that don't have Valorant installed. The only fix to make your system usable again is a full install.

@buckochum @Grimdoomer My friend, the actions are authorized. You downloaded and installed the software which openly and honestly tells you that it protects its memory with your IOMMU. Then you plugged in a device that tries to break that hardware-backed protection and it broke shit. 😂

@Grimdoomer Software that preforms unauthorized actions on a users hardware, permanent or not, is in fact malware.

The comments on this are the dumbest thing I've seen in the past 5, maybe 10 years. I'm not sure which part is more stupid, people not understanding they aren't bricking anything, or people who don't even play the game defending cheaters who paid money to cheat in it

@DukeNuk34653734 @ThatRetiredDude @ogisadaDMA Your name is literally "Duke Nukem." You were born on Reddit and you never left.

@lucedeucee @ThatRetiredDude @ogisadaDMA I'm not a cheater simp but you type like a retarded redditor

Game: Valorant AC: Vanguard (VGK) Today’s Vanguard anti-cheat update blocked the majority of DMA firmwares using SATA/NVMe. VGK suddenly triggered an IOMMU restart warning in-game, after which the DMA firmware becomes completely unusable, even without the game running or after uninstalling Vanguard. Only fix is a full OS reinstall. It’s using IOMMU to create read blocks, which permanently breaks the majority of almost all SATA/NVMe firmwares once triggered. Even the advanced H2-board got affected. Confirmed Firmware Block wave by @ItsGamerDoc

@NolanPrinter @_indubswetrust_ @ThatRetiredDude @ogisadaDMA And now you're spam reporting my posts in an attempt to get me banned? What a fucking loser dude 😂

@NolanPrinter @_indubswetrust_ @ThatRetiredDude @ogisadaDMA I DID reply to you. Yes! I own that I replied to you. Meanwhile, your retarded ass blames ME for YOUR choice to go through my profile and painstakingly reply to dozens of tweets. 😂 The difference between me and you is that I don't say "look what you made me do!!!"

@NolanPrinter @simbay43hwe @LastBastionOfHo @FortniteLinux Why do you keep acting like a retard?

i get that it's a dma card and such, but is remotely bricking people's hardware even legal?

@NolanPrinter @_indubswetrust_ @ThatRetiredDude @ogisadaDMA No, I did not compel you to open my profile and painstakingly reply to dozens of tweets. Take responsibility for your own actions.

@lucedeucee @_indubswetrust_ @ThatRetiredDude @ogisadaDMA As I said, you replied to me, you started this 💀

@NolanPrinter @_indubswetrust_ @ThatRetiredDude @ogisadaDMA I do not control what YOU choose to do with your fingers. YOU made the choice to open my profile, scroll through my tweets, and painstakingly reply to every post I have made under the past 5 hours. 😂

@lucedeucee @_indubswetrust_ @ThatRetiredDude @ogisadaDMA You replied to me. You started this 😂

@NolanPrinter @simbay43hwe @LastBastionOfHo @FortniteLinux Yes, the two like things are you plugging a DMA into a computer running IOMMU-backed security solution and shoving a fork into an outlet. They are equally retarded.

@lucedeucee @simbay43hwe @LastBastionOfHo @FortniteLinux No, an anaology compares 2 thing, you just started talking about my electric company. I use solar pannels, idk what you are implying

@NolanPrinter @_indubswetrust_ @ThatRetiredDude @ogisadaDMA You're actually so fucking stupid man. 😂 You are under a DIFFERENT THREAD, retard. You came to ME under a thread that I never mentioned you in.

@lucedeucee @_indubswetrust_ @ThatRetiredDude @ogisadaDMA You could have just turned those off mid convo 🤯

@NolanPrinter @_indubswetrust_ @ThatRetiredDude @ogisadaDMA that is under this completely different thread, retard.

@lucedeucee @_indubswetrust_ @ThatRetiredDude @ogisadaDMA Uhh why can't you read? Uhh stupid? Uhhhhhhhhh dumb? 😂

@NolanPrinter @_indubswetrust_ @ThatRetiredDude @ogisadaDMA Where is this reply in the thread you are currently talking in? Please scroll up and show me where I was replying to you in the Twitter thread that mentions these three individuals. Cheers.

@lucedeucee @_indubswetrust_ @ThatRetiredDude @ogisadaDMA Dude... can you even read or are you dumb?