This is decidedly not what I’d expect to be discussed at Thotcon. That said, super interesting!

As an avid pirate, I’ll say these days even the Denuvo game which were going years without cracks now have “cracks”, although they rely on hypervisor fixes and disabling secure boot and giving the hypervisor cracks unfettered access to your system to intercept the Denuvo checks. [0] It’s a dangerous game we’re playing to keep these AAA games bottom lines fat.

[0] https://www.thefpsreview.com/2026/04/03/denuvo-has-been-brok...

> While security researchers love the entropy of randomized function layouts

I don't think any competent security researcher has anything positive to say about "security through obscurity"

at best this is lawyer position

Echoing the other comments here - why? What is the threat model here and how does this protect you from it?

why bother?

What is the fps hit?