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by ryanlol 2870 days ago
Why would that significantly increase risk?
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> It's not that different from running any software from the internet.

I don't run "any" software as root or with even more privileges, so I would classify random kexts from the web as a highly critical threat. Of course you could be victim of an exploit even without willingly granting privileges but that's not really relevant.