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by youerbt
2247 days ago
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Your though experiment involves targeted government attack. And they in theory can order any game company to install any virus on some computer during update. That's hardly an argument against this thing. What are realistic security issues with ring0 access on personal computer? I bet most interesting stuff on personal computers is easily accessible with normal user privileges that every game client has. |
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Which is why the current tendency is towards more sandboxing, not less; things like flatpak on Linux, the app stores on Windows and Mac, the heavy sandboxing on phones, and so on. Running an in-kernel component for an application goes against that.