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> You may be right that Linux is a security disaster How so? If you run a program that you trust, like "ls", "vim", "firefox", "cat" or "rm", then you absolut
by enriquto 3y ago
> You may be right that Linux is a security disaster
How so? If you run a program that you trust, like "ls", "vim", "firefox", "cat" or "rm", then you absolutely want it to be able to access all your data. That's the whole point of running a program: to read/write your data.
If, for some reason, you want to run a program that you don't trust, you can run it easily inside a container or a virtual machine.
I fail to see how this is a "security disaster". It seems very sane to me. How could it be even better?
- Defletter 3y agoIt's a rather all or nothing approach. You either trust it to access everything, or you don't run it at all. There's no middle ground. This is something I rather appreciate about Deno versus Node. There was a demonstration where cowsay was asking a bunch of permissions to things you wouldn't expect cowsay to need. And apps could update to increase what it accesses, like telemetry, and you wouldn't know or have any means to stop it. And the all or nothing approach means you just have to stop using the app entirely.