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Malware As A Service (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 3 months ago by alphacyberranger@sh.itjust.works to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Having the data exposed to userspace via an API would avoid having to have a kernel module at all... Which when malformed wouldn't compromise the kernel.

[–] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months ago

I mean, sure. But typically operating systems don't expose that type of information to user space, instead providing a kernel interface with user mode configuration.

It's why they use the same basic approach on mac and Linux.