In a blog post published last week, innocuously titled Ricochet Anti-Cheat Progress Report, the Call of Duty team slipped in some drastic news about how their anti-cheat system is going to work.
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As spotted by RPS, the update had two key points of information. The first was that a new kernel-level version of Ricochet is coming to Call of Duty: Warzone when its Pacific update launches in December, and is then coming to Vanguard later on:
Kernel-level drivers are contentious because although they’re highly effective at catching cheaters, they’re also given very high-level access to your PC, creating a trust-based security issue all of its own.
The second key point was that Call of Duty is changing its “security enforcement policy” (emphasis mine):
