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> Further, I philosophically reject anything that cannot be side loaded or is so locked down you can't load software onto it from external media. But they're n
by Syonyk 5y ago
> Further, I philosophically reject anything that cannot be side loaded or is so locked down you can't load software onto it from external media.
But they're not. You can, with the proper incantations of "fiddling keys you can't do remotely," boot anything you want on them. Just disable the secure boot stuff, which is a designed in, required feature for a Chromebook, and run whatever.
> Yes, security people may love that, but in reality, the entire point of processors is to run code.
If you let a computer, connected to the internet, run any code that is sent its way, it will eventually run mostly malware. Probably foreign, and while well behaved, still quite unwelcome.
- salawat 5y agoWhich is rendered moot by understanding your user's needs, robust traffic monitoring, and paying attention to network logs. What's fun is when you shut down that sketchy looking outbound traffic, and it turns out to be a new Windows telemetry service thing. I also find, driving with kiddos through sketchy places on the internet and getting deliberately infected, so they learn what to look for, and letting your user's educate you on software they need/want also cuts down on the necessity for cargo cult infosec practices. User's are not stupid, nor Lusers. Developers, programmer's, and the companies that pay them are not fond of repetition, expect you to only use their thing and bend over backwards for their convenience, and are often in it not for producing Quality software, but for the paycheck. Admittedly, my practices don't scale to the point of being taught as general infosec practice, as I'm in it for the long haul for the hope that one day computer literacy will be as widely spread as regular literacy. We'll see if I live long enough. (Probably won't).