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I've always appreciated the forthrightness League of Legends deployed here (talking about introducing a kernel driver for anti-cheat: https://www.leagueoflegends.com/en-au/news/dev/dev-null-anti...):

> This isn’t giving us any surveillance capability we didn’t already have. If we cared about grandma’s secret recipe for the perfect Christmas casserole, we’d find no issue in obtaining it strictly from user-mode and then selling it to The Food Network. The purpose of this upgrade is to monitor system state for integrity (so we can trust our data) and to make it harder for cheaters to tamper with our games (so you can’t blame aimbots for personal failure).