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The word is anti cheat software. Spelled anti as in against cheat as in bypassing something for an advantage, and a software as in a computer program. Definition software designed to prevent cheating in video games. Example sentence the anti cheat software detected a player using aimbotting. Origin and context. According to a Tarantola at Engadget for as long as we played games, there have been players willing to break the rules in order to win. Whether it's rolling weighted dice, counting cards, or hip checking pinball machines, you can bet your bottom dollar that if there's a game of chance, someone's working to work the odds in their favor. And it's not different for video games. In the early computer game days, developers created cheat codes to help them navigate their software more efficiently. They could enter a sequence of button presses that allowed them to skip around the levels, become invincible, or pull up a developer's console. Players also discovered accidental cheats by exploding bugs in the game mechanics or by directly manipulating the game console's memory. But finding cheats in a single player and local games, particularly in the early days of gaming, was viewed as more of a fun hobby rather than anything malicious. Many of these games intentionally included cheats to give players the option to modify the gameplay, such as the ability to spawn an invisible tank in Grand Theft Auto 3 or 4 or give characters giant heads in the Tony Hawk games. According To Engadget Doom 2016 for the PC allows for an equally wide variety of cheat codes to be entered through the command line. Once online gaming took off, however, cheating became a more serious problem. Users could install software that gave them an unfair advantage over millions of other players by ruining the experience for everyone else. This can directly impact their reputation and revenue or of the game developer, including multi billion dollar first person shooter franchises like Activision Blizzard's Call of Duty and Bungie's Destiny 2. Game developers created anti cheat software in response to this problem and there are many different versions of this type of software. Some are packaged in the game, some are installed separately on the computer and some are hosted on the game's online servers. This software has always required some trade offs of privacy and but it made headlines in 2020 when Riot Games packaged a kernel level anti cheat software with its valorant game. In modern operating systems, designers create levels of privilege or rings of privilege. For example, ring three, the least privilege is where the normal everyday user operates. At ring three you don't have permission to change anything on the computer. On the opposite end, ring 0 called the kernel. This is where the operating system runs. The operating system has the highest level of privilege because it has to manage how the computer functions. Software running at ring zero had better be error free and efficient or the computer itself becomes unstable. With the Riot Games kernel level anti cheat software According to Brian Menegas at Wired, an increasingly vocal subset of gamers are concerned that the software meant to detect and ban cheaters has become overly broad and evasive, posing a considerable threat to their privacy and system integrity. In other words, why would we significantly increase the attack surface and the stability of our computers in order to spend a few happy hours every day destroying seven year olds in Fortnite? I mean, it's fun, but it's probably not worth it. On the other hand, nobody likes a cheater and it takes the fun out of the game. If the seven year old you're up against are running circles around you and because they're cheating and you're not, why would you pay the 50 bucks for the game if you know that cheating within it is rampant? Microsoft announced a compromise in 2021 saying that it wouldn't be using ring zero or kernel level anti cheating software in its new Halo Infinite game. According to Wired, within days of launching the Halo subreddit exploded with complaints about the absence of anti cheat measures. As in all things, achieving security is a collection of decision trade offs that either affect the level of security on one end or the efficiency or privacy of the system on the other. This is as true in the gaming industry as it is in any other vertical. Nerd Reference In June of 2020, the YouTube channel Techquickie broke down the current state of anti cheat software in the gaming industry today.