Someone buys a used Ryzen 7 5800X3D. “Valorant” and other Riot games won’t start with it because the previous owner was a cheater.

Someone buys a used Ryzen 7 5800X3D. “Valorant” and other Riot games won’t start with it because the previous owner was a cheater.

  • thingsiplay@lemmy.mlEnglish
    23·
    20 hours ago

    It is unclear how Riot uniquely identifies processors. While CPUs report a hardware ID to the operating system, they only reveal which model it is. A Ryzen 7 5800X3D, for example, is not distinguishable from another Ryzen 7 5800X3D without further ado.

    Intel’s Pentium 3 processors from 1999 untypically had unique identifiers. At the time, they caused protests: data protectionists feared that the readable serial number would act like a permanent cookie and make users trackable without gaps.

    Riot could create hardware fingerprints for tracking, for example, with a combination of clock behavior and voltages. Each processor behaves slightly differently and can thus be identified.

    • ルルㇲ@retrofed.comOPEnglish
      81·
      19 hours ago

      data protectionists feared that the readable serial number would act like a permanent cookie and make users trackable without gaps.

      oh no, our age is showing. quick, cue gen α brainrot!

        • ルルㇲ@retrofed.comOPEnglish
          41·
          19 hours ago

          I pray you don’t go to playstores.
          We survived shockwaveGame brainrot,
          we’ll survive J2MErot.
          It’s bad bad bad bad bad bad bad.

          • thingsiplay@lemmy.mlEnglish
            1·
            19 hours ago

            I couldn’t care less for mobile games. I don’t even use normal Android or PlayStore. My reply was more of a joke. Currently we are also living through AiGame braintrot, especially on PC.

            • ルルㇲ@retrofed.comOPEnglish
              11·
              19 hours ago

              My reply was more of a joke.

              same. look up the dates of shockwave & J2ME. I am implying we always had brainrot. The issue is that some choose to be addicted. We choose to circumvent.