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Thinking about installing Riot's rootkit
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I'd like to add that even if you use full disk encryption and have to enter a password to unlock it they could just install a modified loader that captures your password. Though it's not necessary something I'd worry about from them.
All of that is unfortunately true about any anticheat and pretty much any software you use, really.
Obviously not if you run it unprivileged in a separate OS, but the vast majority of users don't even use more than a single (usually not password protected administrator) account.