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As opposed to updating any other piece of software in the system directly? The OS has always had full control.
by loeg 3y ago
As opposed to updating any other piece of software in the system directly? The OS has always had full control.
- ChadNauseam 3y agoThe implication was that you could boot a malicious OS, then boot into a different OS with the same processor and get pwned. As other commenters mentioned, this mechanism doesn't create that risk because the update has to be applied each boot.