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Call of Duty cheaters are being struck blind by anti-cheat software

Enlarge / Hey, where’d everybody go? (credit: Chaos / Activision) Players caught cheating in Call of Duty can now be punished with a penalty that makes them unable to see their opponents, a new anti-cheat mitigation feature that Activision calls “cloaking.” Cheaters that are subject to a cloaking penalty will find that “characters, bullets, even […]

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Activision claims Call of Duty’s new anti-cheat system won’t look at your files

Enlarge Call of Duty ‘s comprehensive new anti-cheat system includes a potential olive branch for security-conscious players: it can’t access your PC’s private files, or so Activision claims. Announced Wednesday via the Call of Duty blog , the developers’ new suite of cheat deterrent tools (called the Ricochet Anti-Cheat initiative) includes the kernel-level driver for […]