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On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 09:47, Wichert Akkerman wrote:

> Not using modules does not add any security at all, that is a myth that
> refuses to die.

Could you explain this in more detail? It seems to me that if the kernel
does not support loadable modules that it would be inherently more
secure because it could not be dynamically modified with a module. How
is my understanding of this wrong?