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You know, I go back and forth on this a lot these days. I have a a couple of high power machines across operating systems and I find that, lately, I barely trus
by eightysixfour 2y ago
You know, I go back and forth on this a lot these days. I have a a couple of high power machines across operating systems and I find that, lately, I barely trust installing a downloadable application on them anymore. Installation instructions have sudo commands everywhere, on windows everything wants to escalate to admin rights for the installer, etc.
At some point applications completely broke my trust, and the OS manufacturers failed to protect us, and now we're all paying for it with inefficient garbage everywhere.
- cosmic_cheese 2y agoI have similar suspicions towards unknown web apps, because even with how good browser sandboxing has gotten it just takes a single click or less to set off a nasty chain of 0days. For native apps, I treat non-obvious need for sudo or admin priveleges as a smell. The way everything on Windows needs admin is actually one of the reasons why I don’t use it for anything but games.
- eightysixfour 2y agoInteresting - I perceive web zero days to be substantially more valuable than desktop ones at this point, and unlikely to be wasted on me.