-4 points
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It is a potential security risk to the system and enables extremely intrusive control and surveillance.
It’s basically a rootkit.
15 points
16 points
Yikes. I did not know that. I’m a Linux user but when it comes to talking about kernel stuff I’m like “what?”
11 points
Tldr kernel access is bad.
You have a great personal reference point for this; you use Linux, and when have you ever needed kernel access regularly?
What conceivable reason could a game dev have for wanting access to that?
How could having that access be detrimental to your machines security?
