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what Linux desktop?
Probably this list: http://distrowatch.com/search.php?category=Desktop
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You're ignoring that most Linux distros come with better defaults, i.e. no open ports. Reducing the attack surface is an important part in keeping the OS safe. Windows is remarkably bad in that regard.
Windows comes with its firewall turned on by default since XP SP2, most popular distros doesn't do that even today. Windows 10 doesn't even respond to ping by default (which is a pita).
Hmm. If i look at the slides, the article should be renamed "gstreamer, and some stuff browsers on all platforms do, are insecure"? Is it easier to change your media player on Linux, or to trust Microsoft? Say, does a default Windows install still enable 20 networked services that don't belong on a home computer and can be exploited without the user downloading anything?
This title is pure sensationalism. The written piece says clearly "security vulnerabilities in the GStreamer multimedia framework. A combination of the Chrome browser and GNOME-based desktops creates a particularly scary vulnerability.". Somehow this very specific combination inflated to become Desktop Linux. My default installation came with VLC, firefox and KDE. No gstreamer nor gnome installed, google products inc…
I dislike this idea that the Linux desktop is all Gnome and systemd, too, but the situation is pretty disastrous. Things that have an X in them, from X11 to (especially...) XDG shouldn't be trusted too much...
Anyone care to define default outside of Ubuntu?
I run OpenSUSE and have it down to just a tiled window manager, terminal and FireFox.
Speaker here. As the slides may not tell the whole story (there should be a video soon), I covered this mostly also for LWN recently: https://lwn.net/Articles/708196/
Video? What happened to good old fashioned text? I can read 10x faster than you can talk...
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"Since Trump"? The most recent rev to that law was last year. Obama didn't leave office until this one.
yup! Since trump[1]. As I said IIRC this feature has been introduced with the patriot act. At least out of US, privacy oriented online companies put forward that they are outside patriot act jurisdiction. [1]: https://www.engadget.com/2017/01/26/trump-signs-executive-or...
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Windows comes with its firewall turned on by default since XP SP2, most popular distros doesn't do that even today. Windows 10 doesn't even respond to ping by default (which is a pita).
Not sure about other distros but opensuse comes with a pretty strict firewall out of the box. My logic says that this is probably common practice for many general-use distros.
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Windows comes with its firewall turned on by default since XP SP2, most popular distros doesn't do that even today. Windows 10 doesn't even respond to ping by default (which is a pita).
Not sure about other distros but opensuse comes with a pretty strict firewall out of the box. My logic says that this is probably common practice for many general-use distros.