Realistically what is the risk of ssh being exposed if white listing is done, 2 factor auth and key auth are used? I suppose someone using a zero day, spoofing or from a whitelisted IP may successfully exploit but really?
I just wish people would stop with the “until death do us part” horse shit unless they are actually willing to do that. Just say “until I grow bored or decide it’s not in my favor anymore” do us part. Let’s be real.
These viewpoints only exist because those who hold them are never held responsible for explaining why the last popularly held view they had is no longer valid and why they didn’t figure it out before it became unpopular.
If a game dev team thinks they can stop people from gaining an unfair advantage from just preventing people from running Linux they are morons. Even if you were in Windows you have to do is setup an inverse Linux VM to operate on the local host network in which case it would essentially be a daemon. Even with cigwin and a few other tools, you can use strace to inject system calls and override values right into the PID of the game