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Lots of security issues are fixed not by “fixing” them but by adding mitigations which include user approval, surfacing otherwise hidden activity, and other cru
by ironmagma 7y ago
Lots of security issues are fixed not by “fixing” them but by adding mitigations which include user approval, surfacing otherwise hidden activity, and other crutches. At the end of the day it is an automated system and must do things without the human in the loop, so the best you can do is make “the loop” visible to the user.
- pdonis 7y ago> user approval Adding a repository/PPA does require user approval. You can't do sudo without knowing you're doing it. > surfacing otherwise hidden activity Yes, and Linux gives you plenty of tools to do that, like, say, "ps aux" and "top" (or the many GUI equivalents in various desktop environments). > At the end of the day it is an automated system Remember we're talking about desktops here, not servers. Desktops are not "automated" in any relevant sense for this discussion.