Should Magnus Carlsen have required Niemman to get a cavity search? When tons of kids have neuralink implants, should they be polygraphed before taking a spelling test?
Cheating is not a technical problem, it's a people problem.
>Anti cheat software because one needs to play with people one does not trust and so attempts to get good behavior from strangers by force.
Same could be said about laws. Goes to show that we don't have it solved it, at all. Every single system that we have has active bad actors in it, with no chance for us to catch them, by any means that we have, technological or not.
To add to this even more, it's not even a people problem, it's an animal problem - some of them also give out fake signals, in order to gain something.
I agree on a theoretical level, like, if it's my general purpose computer, then everything that runs on it should also answer to me, not other parties. This applies to anti-cheat, and also to DRM and other concepts like Trusted Computing and Secure Boot even, to a degree.
I don't see how one could prevent cheating, if one allows a software abstraction layer between the game, and the user. If a software is allowed to manipulate another software, then that other software cannot have proof that it's not being manipulated. On one hand, this is the beauty of computing, but on a practical level, this makes cheating in online games very easy and undetectable. So, because I like playing online, I made the compromise that somehow this level of intrusion is okay.
Yes, and technical solutions are usually a bad sign. How nice is the neighborhood that locks pharmacy razors vs the one that doesn't?