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How long until a botnet exploits one of these root kits and puts millions of high-end GPUs to work for whatever. Or a troll just fries everyone's hardware for the lawls.
Something along those lines already happened..
https://www.pcgamer.com/ransomware-abuses-genshin-impacts-kernel-mode-anti-cheat-to-bypass-antivirus-protection/
Or they push a bug by accident that gets the machine into a bootloop? On the bright side hospital and airline computers don't have GTA installed on them so the impact would be reduced to personal computers.
Are you sure?