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cyanydeez
48 days ago
ok, but what kind of nefarious use case will it enable if it is accessible to malfeasance.
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PeterWhittaker
48 days ago
I may be wrong, but on a correctly-configured system, one would have to have root access to act nefariously. Since this is intended to prevent exploitation of vulnerabilities that enable privilege escalation, it feels like a net win.
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ObscureScience
48 days ago
I guess it could disable the killswitch
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cyanydeez
48 days ago
besides that.
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