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by WorldMaker 702 days ago
It seems like a (possibly obvious?) variation of the Church-Turing Theory that any sufficiently advanced scripting language for a Kernel driver is still a kernel level deployment and should be treated as such. Which is to say that these "conservative deployment recommendations" don't seem conservative enough given what we know of Turing Completeness and how easy it is to break any Turing machine. (I still love that our academia has found an unfixable "0-Day jailbreak" in the Universal Turing Machine itself, proving that this root problem is truly deep in computation theories and reproducible at the most abstract levels.)

(The other recent news that Red Hat has been blaming CrowdStrike for sending eBPF files that also kernel panic on Linux also contributes evidence to this any sufficiently advanced scripting language for kernel drivers is itself a kernel driver-level of deployment risk.)