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Security is meaningless if your system doesn't work. Makes sense for me. Or your car is forbidden from starting after an upgrade because you might run over someone tonight. It's a trade-off.

They're choosing backwards compatibility over bad security (kill everything instead of reporting and fixing bugs). Applying duct tape everywhere instead of fixing things can hardly be desired.

And as a side note, backwards compatibility is what made windows succeed.

Do you want your system to kernel panic every time the security code gets a false positive about a problem? The security code is just as likely to have bugs as the software it is securing.