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Clever! I know some will say it's like closing the barn door after the horse left, but having this in place to mitigate future vulnerabilities will be handy.
by PeterWhittaker 5mo ago
Clever! I know some will say it's like closing the barn door after the horse left, but having this in place to mitigate future vulnerabilities will be handy.
- cyanydeez 5mo agook, but what kind of nefarious use case will it enable if it is accessible to malfeasance.
- ObscureScience 5mo agoI guess it could disable the killswitch
- cyanydeez 5mo agobesides that.
- PeterWhittaker 5mo agoI may be wrong, but on a correctly-configured system, one would have to have root access to act nefariously. Since this is intended to prevent exploitation of vulnerabilities that enable privilege escalation, it feels like a net win.