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Not sure using a different OS helps the issue, if not making it worse -- * These days hackers have a lot of resources and are often nation state actors. They u
by rty32 2y ago
Not sure using a different OS helps the issue, if not making it worse --
* These days hackers have a lot of resources and are often nation state actors. They utilize 0 day vulnerabilities. I don't see how an obscure OS will do any better than mainstream OS in terms of detecting and responding to exploits
* Many hacks actually start with social engineering, and human becomes the weakest point (well, in some sense, it always has been)
* Users, most of which are not computer experts, could make more mistakes when they are faced with software/interfaces they are not familiar with. (I'm just making this up, happy to see data that says otherwise.) "Open suspicious links in disposable VMs"? Sure, if they have received enough training and can do it perfectly, every single time, and never confuse the VM and the host environment. I'd say "never open suspicious links, forward the email to IT to help with you if needed", or even, just filtering untrusted domains in the email, is a much simpler and effective approach.
- blitzar 2y agoI expect you could mitigate 9 out of 10 breeches by staff not giving out their teams shared admin password (which is password123) over the phone to someone who says they are Jim from the CEOs office who needs to check some numbers for the big presentation tomorrow.
- spoonfeeder006 2y agoLess privileged code would mean less zero day exploits. Qubes relies on an order of magnitude less privileged code than Linux, and I believe Xen has had far fewer escalation of privilege exploits than Linux kernel "Open suspicious links in disposable VMs" change that to "Open all links using the appropriate process" But yeah, the social engineering though...