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zbentleyyesterday at 11:13 PM1 replyview on HN

This is "a service that automatically starts". That's what automatic kernel module loading is for!

It's not any different from putting an always-running network service behind socket activation instead. The security boundary/risk is nearly identical between the two.


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akerl_yesterday at 11:15 PM

One is remotely accessible. The other is locally accessible.

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