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"Less secure" depends on your threat model. I'm much less worried a hypothetical attack where I accidentally give sudo access to a malicious app than I am abou
by hedora 2y ago
"Less secure" depends on your threat model.
I'm much less worried a hypothetical attack where I accidentally give sudo access to a malicious app than I am about the well-established ongoing attacks where Google violates the entire population's privacy, or the regular stream of malware that makes it into the official app store.
- jampekka 2y agoNot that long ago it was considered a problem to have a rootkit on your machine [1]. Nowadays it's getting hard to acquire a device that hasn't been rootkitted at the factory. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootkit_scandal https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_roo...