Desktop Linux systems often feature some kind of automount capability so you can just plug in an external drive and have it work. Windows and macOS provide simi

Desktop Linux systems often feature some kind of automount capability so you can just plug in an external drive and have it work. Windows and macOS provide similar facilities. Per the article, is this actually insecure? Will plugging in a corrupt/maliciously modified ext4-formatted drive on an automount Linux system enable kernel compromise? If so, why is it that this is generally OK on Windows/macOS (barring silly things like autostart viruses)?