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by mycall 2883 days ago
You forgot, frequent rebuilds kill off any intrusion as the world reflashes -- unless they get into IoT or microcontroller packages.
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I did mention that it makes it harder for an attacker to keep a foothold in your infrastructure, but I think I wasn't as clear as I wanted to be.

But yeah, it's bad that an attacker has been able to get to a critical system, but it's a phenomenal defense if any of their beacons or remote access tools last at most a few hours or days before being wiped. This makes an attacker's life much harder.