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saagarjha
5 months ago
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New Apple security feature reboots iPhones after 3...
How do you expect to swap out your kernel without restarting your machine?
sintax
5 months ago
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Don't know about apple, but on linux you can live patch a running kernel with security updates (kpatch/ksplice/...).
saagarjha
5 months ago
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Right, which means that an attacker can trick your kernel into patching itself to do something malicious.
dizhn
5 months ago
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And automatic periodical reboots give hackers the piece they were missing. :)
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