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FWIW Jason called it A Defensive Rootkit [0]. But the parent post is wrong, the defensive rootkit is not to prevent logging, it's to prevent extracting the con
by microcolonel 8y ago
FWIW Jason called it A Defensive Rootkit [0].
But the parent post is wrong, the defensive rootkit is not to prevent logging, it's to prevent extracting the configuration from the kernel. It effectively makes the WireGuard configuration write-only from the perspective of userspace. WireGuard does not do any access logging by default as far as I am aware.
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