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Hm guess I subconsciously chose an clickbaity title... Well in my case, I use Debian as my main operating system on my Desktop. Debian is great, but as a class
by p410n3 6y ago
Hm guess I subconsciously chose an clickbaity title...
Well in my case, I use Debian as my main operating system on my Desktop. Debian is great, but as a classical desktop OS it does not have those cool security things like app sandboxing, permissions management (camera acces etc) and stuff like that. Which makes sense, since mobile Operating Systems were designed from the ground up way later and also seem to move at a faster pace. The fact alone that almostt all ANdroid Apps run in the JVM and are written in memory safe languages is a huge plus that the GNU/Linux family does not have. (Solely speaking about security, I wouldnt want my /bin/sh to be in java)
In my particular case, it suprised me to find out that my android is the most secure device I own. Thus the title (and the intention to wrote this post).
So yeah, misleading title. Kinda. My Bad. Updated the title
- zokier 6y agoThe big difference between Debian and Android is that with Debian you don't generally want or need to run untrusted or untrustworthy 3rd party code. Instead your software comes from trusted source with maintenance promise and security updates. And I'm starting to think that is better model than trying to sandbox and lock down everything; the world needs more trust at certain places. In contrast you are no way able to trust random Android apps, neither the quality or the intentions, so you are left with actively hostile relationship between you, the OS, and the apps.
- p410n3 6y agoI'm saving this. Very good point