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to be fair, the whole root thing is relevant in multi user or cases where you're mucking about with an installation. if you're always careful to run as a non-p
by exe34 2y ago
to be fair, the whole root thing is relevant in multi user or cases where you're mucking about with an installation.
if you're always careful to run as a non-privileged user, the most that could happen is that a browser vulnerability allows arbitrary execution of code as your user, allowing deletion, encryption, exfiltration of your personal data. so you're boned anyway.
- ForHackernews 2y agohttps://xkcd.com/1200/ https://xkcd.com/1200/
- majkinetor 2y agoIts stated that any app runs under its own user, including the browser.
- hawski 2y agoExactly. Though security is an onion, so it is at least making it harder. In the traditional Linux desktop model a vulnerability may allow to run something as the user. It can change your bashrc, your application menu as well as your launchers, your browser extensions and settings. You may already have a user writable directory in your PATH so it can replace things even on a lower level.