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Back in the day, you could install windows XP and be infested in minutes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaster_%28computer_worm%29
Fun fact an attacker only needs to steal credentials from the home directory to jump into a companies AWS account where all the juicy customer data lives, so there are reasons we want this control.
Frankly I'd like to see the smart people complaining help write better solutions rather than hinder.
[0] https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/30/22410164/linux-kernel-uni...
https://www.anandtech.com/show/18721/ces-2023-amd-instinct-m...
https://www.cerebras.net/andromeda/ https://tenstorrent.com/grayskull/
Abusing a function with requests(Ddos/fail auth), to the point it's supporting third party service blocked said functions APIkeys.. would be an interesting attack vector.
Even with the issues, it has been an amazing experiment to observe!