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		loeg on July 24, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Zenbleed As opposed to updating any other piece of software in the system directly? The OS has always had full control.

ChadNauseam on July 25, 2023 [–]

The implication was that you could boot a malicious OS, then boot into a different OS with the same processor and get pwned. As other commenters mentioned, this mechanism doesn't create that risk because the update has to be applied each boot.

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