| ▲ | PeterWhittaker 3 hours 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. |
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| ▲ | cyanydeez 2 hours ago | parent [-] |
| ok, but what kind of nefarious use case will it enable if it is accessible to malfeasance. |
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| ▲ | PeterWhittaker 13 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | I 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. | |
| ▲ | ObscureScience 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | I guess it could disable the killswitch | | |
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