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But you would need sudo access to create a malicious bootloader partition and edit fstab. And indeed on Windows, I’ve never seen the bootloader mounted. Maybe
by yunohn 3y ago
But you would need sudo access to create a malicious bootloader partition and edit fstab. And indeed on Windows, I’ve never seen the bootloader mounted.
Maybe I’m missing something in the disclosure?
- beeboobaa 3y agoYou can just write to the disk as administrator on windows. No need to mount anything though you could probably do that too.
- ikekkdcjkfke 3y agoHow nice that asking for indiscriminate admin access is a must to install most programs Installer: Hey, can i create a folder in Program Files? Windows: nuclear launch codes
- gunapologist99 3y agoHow are you going to admin a Linux system without sudo or doas? (and even if you're protecting it with a password, the script can just silently wait and keep trying)
- yunohn 3y agoIf I run `sudo apt update`, how can an unrelated script get admin access?