Comments by "Lepi Doptera" (@lepidoptera9337) on "Kernelless Kernel Programming (eBPF) - Computerphile" video.

Because this is the internet? ;-)
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@alpo789 I never understood why people think that "root" is safe. For 99% of users it's more likely that the hacker knows how to become root before the user does.
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@StefanReich Which is just as bad an idea as this. A user machine should NEVER allow root access.
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@tablettablete186 sudo is a naive workaround for the failed "root" concept. The average user should NEVER have to use it. Look, all of this was invented at a time when computer security was not a problem. Today it is. Nobody was doing their bank transactions on a multi-user mainframe in the 1960s and early 1970s. Except for the bank, that is... and they could physically secure their hardware and the only possible "hackers" were their own employees who had hardware access. That made these simple minded concepts somewhat workable. They are not workable today.
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It kills it. ;-)
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What stops me from writing acyclic code that will take longer than the lifetime of the universe to terminate? The entire idea sounds naive to me. Unless they are setting a low (1 minute) limit on top, without the ability to restart... and even then one can probably still do some rather malicious things with it.
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