Re:Ask HN: Is the new MacBook Pro worth its value for a deve...
by reitanqild on Monday September 03, 2018 @11:10AM
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Seems I'm either wrong or I'm punished for being rude.
In the latter case, sorry. I honestly agree I should have caught that.
In the first case my thought process goes as follows (hoping someone knowledgeable will correct me):
- user space may very well contain hostile processes (trojans, rootkits, - even intentionally in the case where a user inspects malware in some kind of container or chroot environment.
- user space may contain mechanisms that attempts to protect the kernel, but a typical kernel (linux, and I guess most other free kernels) cannot rely on it.
- I tried searching for userspace protect kernel and the closest thing I found was the act of separating userspace from kernel space protects the kernel which is what I tried to point out in my post above.
In the latter case, sorry. I honestly agree I should have caught that.
In the first case my thought process goes as follows (hoping someone knowledgeable will correct me):
- user space may very well contain hostile processes (trojans, rootkits, - even intentionally in the case where a user inspects malware in some kind of container or chroot environment.
- user space may contain mechanisms that attempts to protect the kernel, but a typical kernel (linux, and I guess most other free kernels) cannot rely on it.
- I tried searching for userspace protect kernel and the closest thing I found was the act of separating userspace from kernel space protects the kernel which is what I tried to point out in my post above.