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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish-5•10 months agoYou understand and give explicit permission for every piece of the kernel?
minus-square@ReyglelinkEnglish0•10 months agoDo you trust Microsoft? If you do I might suggest we find you a nice quiet padded room. Imagine someone attempted to (or even succeeded in) pushing malicious (or even just poor, “bad” code into the kernel. What do you suppose would happen? Oh wait we don’t have to imagine. Some people tried, and got admonished publicly. https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/30/22410164/linux-kernel-university-of-minnesota-banned-open-source
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•10 months agoWho said anything about trusting Microsoft? No piece of software is going to ask you for permission for every single operation it does. Malware is more than just that.
You understand and give explicit permission for every piece of the kernel?
Do you trust Microsoft? If you do I might suggest we find you a nice quiet padded room.
Imagine someone attempted to (or even succeeded in) pushing malicious (or even just poor, “bad” code into the kernel. What do you suppose would happen? Oh wait we don’t have to imagine. Some people tried, and got admonished publicly.
https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/30/22410164/linux-kernel-university-of-minnesota-banned-open-source
Who said anything about trusting Microsoft? No piece of software is going to ask you for permission for every single operation it does. Malware is more than just that.