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    1 year ago

    And its power to make the system less secure. Isolating things outside ring 0 means malware can isolate itself outside ring 0 as well, and then it’s impossible to detect or remove without throwing out the entire machine.

    Which is much, much scarier than anything an ordinary rootkit might do.