Your Computer Isn't Yours
Niklas
@freddy My computer is mine because it runs Linux.People who use proprietary software don't deserve anything better than that.
@nipos Hate to tell you but your computer probably still isn't yours. If you have an Intel or AMD processor (other than a few) your device is packed with hardware level spying that you can't remove. Also Linux is wildly insecure and its only saving grace is security by obscurity which won't protect it as it's shallow excuse forever. Also due to its lack of any meaningful sandbox, any anti privacy apps you have installed are tracking everything you're doing in other apps too.
@ThreeBadgersInATrenchcoat Linux is *not* insecure and I only use free open source software.
@nipos It is objectively insecure. There is no sandboxing on the standard desktop, the entire kernel is written in a memory unsafe language, the kernel is too big for anyone to review so you just have to trust others, the kernel is wildly behind on exploit mitigations, a compromised non-root user with access to sudo is almost equal to a full root compromise as there are an insane amount of ways for an attacker to retrieve a password,
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no verified boot, no full system MAC policies, and if you think "well Flatpaks have sandboxing so I'm good if I just use Flatpaks!", then you aren't. Flatpak tries to implement sandboxing but then allows and trusts all applications to set their own sandboxing policies, meaning any application security or sandboxing is entirely optional and the burden of the program developer(s) to set.
I could go on but I think you get it. I use Linux everyday, I think its great, but it is not secure.
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