If you can install a program that runs at system startup and panics the kernel, that's beyond mild inconvenience - it's potentially a major IT scramble for a wh

If you can install a program that runs at system startup and panics the kernel, that's beyond mild inconvenience - it's potentially a major IT scramble for a whole company's fleet, for example. Even for a server machine, it might require complicated debug procedures and/or physical access, since you can no longer just SSH into the system.