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If you have kernel access you can already do almost everything so a vulnerability on top of that isn't that bad since no one should have kernel access to your computer
You mean like Crowdstrike?
~~Most~~ All antivirus software runs at kernel level
Which is precisely the reason you shouldn't use an AV apart from the one packaged with Windows
"They're going for the kernel!"
"Colonel who?"
Cancer. Brain. Brain cancer.