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The automatic updates most distros have enabled by default. Signal desktop outright stops working if you don't constantly pull updates from them.
by izacus 7mo ago
The automatic updates most distros have enabled by default. Signal desktop outright stops working if you don't constantly pull updates from them.
- littlestymaar 7mo agoSignal pushing updates every other day is pretty much a security anti-pattern though. It makes it almost as vulnerable as a web app to this kind of thing, but this isn't the typical Linux software experience by any stretch.
- izacus 7mo agoA typical user experience is Ubuntu/Fedora with Auto Updates from repos enabled.
- 63stack 7mo agoDebian requires unattended-upgrades to be installed (it's not installed by default), Mint and Fedora has the option of enabling automatic updates (disabled by default), Arch has no mechanism for automatic updates. Which ones are these "most distros"?
- the8472 7mo agoDistros have mirrors and they don't know which one you use. The updaters don't send user IDs and downloading the package lists is separate from downloading the packages. So targeted backdoor distrubution is much harder than a company's web UI with user logins targeting a specific user.