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Why would you design a system where a piece of malware can "install itself" at a mega-priviledged position?

My argument was that this is the flaw, and everything else is just trying to put lipstick on a pig.

If you have a nightclub and you have problem controlling which people get in, the first idea would be to not have a thousand unguarded doors and to then recruit people that search the inside of your nightclub for people they think didn't pay.

You probably would think about reducing the numbers of doors and adding effective mechanisms to them that help you with your goals.

I am not saying we don't need software that checks files at the door, I say we need to reduce the number of doors leading directly to the nightclubs cash reserve.




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