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Comment by Nextgrid

4 hours ago

It prevents malware that obtained root access once from forever replacing your kernel/initrd and achieving persistence that way.

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direwolf20  1 hour ago

Unless that malware is able to activate the secure boot feature on a system where it is not enabled, in which case it permanently prevents me from removing the malware.

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