Originally posted by Aryma
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You might as well ask whether we need ASLR, DEP, SELinux... heck, why do we even need sudo? Its not like you have state secrets on your laptop!
It's incredible that after years of boasting about the superior security of Linux over Windows, the entire community seems to have adopted this anti-security mentality that would accept severe security vulnerabilities in order to preserve performance.
Just run in ring 0 and we can entirely aoid context switches, I'm sure the performance will be great.
Windows at this point has gone through significant battle hardening and I would not be surprised to see the next botnets largely made up of Linux hosts because of this common sentiment.
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