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Denial of Service by panicing is also harmful for some processes.



It's not like an already running process will be affected by this.

This would only occur when the package gets updated or reinstalled, which shouldn't happen without supervision if the program is running in a sensitive context.

Else a Denial of Service is a good last resort measure in order to prevent running a malicious service. Ideally this gets detected at install/build time.




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