Post #2668328
2026-05-06 22:19 UTC
My gut reaction is that there are a lot of ways, once you have root access, to have your changes persistent. For example, modifying/replacing binaries, adding new ones before old ones in the path, adding startup scripts, modifying config files. Kernel modules seem to be an overcomplicated way to go about it, especially since (afaik) it would need to be compiled against the specific kernel version.
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@Auth@lemmy.world 2026-05-10 22:14
If you have security software it will check all of those against a known good default. The web of trust on boot is needed so the security software knows 100% that the kernel and its modules are trustworthy.