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There are solid reasons to put your browser executable and storage other than on your principle desktop in the first place. That still leaves the attack-surfac
by dredmorbius 2y ago
There are solid reasons to put your browser executable and storage other than on your principle desktop in the first place.
That still leaves the attack-surface of browser-based activities (do you really want your recreational activities sites interacting with your financial services?), but both gives the option for fresh respawns (OS and/or browser) and physical and network isolation of your local storage and data from your browser.
(This presumes hygiene on any browser-based downloads as well, of course.)
In general, the idea that we'd want all our data on a globally-accessible network is seeming increasingly unwise to me over time, given both technical and political developments.
Late edit: Oh, and Browsh: text-only browser-via-proxy supporting CSS/JS.
<https://www.brow.sh/ https://www.brow.sh/>
<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25129747 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25129747>
- notarealllama 2y agoSo say we all. My non-tech friends call me paranoid at the basic level of protection I do - separate browsers for everything, and a couple of VMs for e.g. finances. Vlan has always been an important part of LAN security but we're just out here with always on, full Internet access? My home firewall logs show an insane amount of bot / scraping etc.
- nxobject 2y agoIt's also a good way of isolating proprietary applications that barf services, applications, and custom ways of keeping user state all over the system – I'm looking at you, Citrix.