I agree with you. >Any code executing in privileged mode can bypass security, and is therefore inherently part of a system's trusted computing base (TCB). (Lin

I agree with you. >Any code executing in privileged mode can bypass security, and is therefore inherently part of a system's trusted computing base (TCB). (Linux is a monolithic kernel running in ring 0) It's way nicer to be able to look at the code running in Ring 0 =)