• Solar Bear@slrpnk.net
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    1 year ago

    There’s no downside to having it. There’s many downsides to not having it. This seems pretty cut and dry to me.

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      1 year ago

      There’s no downside to having it.

      Sure there are. If it gets compromised with malicious code, I have no way of removing it.

      I can protect ring 0. I can keep crap out of ring 0. If all else fails, I can nuke everything in ring 0 and boot a fresh OS installation. But I can’t do a single bleeping thing except throw out the whole machine if malware takes over ring -1.