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Sorry, but where is the difference from a secure-system that allows central control - and a male-ware backdoored system? All that is diffrent is the promise of
by LifeLiverTransp 7y ago
Sorry, but where is the difference from a secure-system that allows central control - and a male-ware backdoored system?
All that is diffrent is the promise of non-maliciousness. Which often does not hold up. Cause money is corrosive to those little centralized empires of "all-can-fail-but-me".
Security is diversity, as in having a non-centrally controllable ecosystem, that is not a mono-culture. Your updates are the danger, your urge for control is the forrest fire.
Linux is not secure because its updated often. As package maintainer take-overs have show- that is even a vector.
Its secure, because its fragmented into a thousand small populations, which offer no real financially interesting attack vector for a large scale take over.
- Wowfunhappy 7y agoLinux's diversity also makes it difficult to package and distribute non-malicious software, so I'm not sure that's the poster child for how to do security without compromising usability. (The situation is admittedly getting better with Flatpak.)