Article suggestion: Defensive Software

[life00]

I would like to suggest an article idea.
The title could be changed if you can think of a better one.

The topic of the article is about privileged software that is trying to defend against higher privileged software like for example:

• games with anti-cheats
• banking apps
• DRM
• maybe something else

The goal of the article is to explain why such defensive mechanisms against higher privileged software (on the example of software mentioned above) may work or may not.

This topic may not be relevant to your project, but I think it's pretty interesting (at least to me).
Currently I haven't started working on it and so no sources yet.
In case it is approved to be relevant I may start slowly working on it or someone may start instead of me.
(If it's not approved, its fine)
In the future I am also planning to contribute and write more articles on different topics, if possible.

[wj25czxj47bu6q]

Unless I am misunderstanding, this concept sounds nearly if not completely impossible with any current security model.

Also, of the examples you give, the only one that typically runs with any sort of privilege is games with ring 0 (kernel‑level) anti‑cheat.

[life00]

Yes, I guess you are right.

• Anti-cheats use higher level privilege to defend
• banking apps don't actually defend, they obscure and try to detect intrusion
• DRM software by design uses higher privileged stuff to defend

In such case maybe there is no point in it. The conclusion is already apparent - any defence mechanisms that are actually in lower privileged software against higher privileged software does not exist or isn't effective.

At least now I know :)

[life00]

In such case this short discussion may end.