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When will we get secure nuclear power plants...
When will we get secure vaccines...
When will we get secure cars...
When will we get secure planets (without fires,floods, earthquakes, etc.)...
Bla bla bla.
I don't understand the responses in this thread. Does nobody want an OS with a permissions system where you can reliably control access to resources? Or strong app sandboxing by default to keep chrome from sniffing your files (allegedly, this is virus scanning)? There isn't any loss of freedom with those as long as your super user can modify it all - its a gain of freedom in that you can have some control over what y…
I want an os that's useful, streamlined, and can run games without adding an asterisk. That basically locks me into Windows. I've heard lots of great excuses for why things are this way and noted the progress Steam has made in pushing forward gaming on Linux but ultimately there's always a wall or a compromise in what mainstream programs I can use and I'm not the sort of person who can feel good because the worse exp…
Linux users tend to prioritise software freedom, digital privacy, customisability, hackability and longevity, so will settle for it being a little less streamlined and being able to run 15k out of 18k Steam games, which is more than enough games for my enjoyment. Each to their own.
If you want to get there, I wouldn't start from here. The problem is, from the status quo we have today it's hard to see how we'd get to a point of security without sacrificing general purpose computing. After all, it's either possible for the user to promote an application to equal the power of the OS, or it isn't. Oh, sure, you could make it mandatory to ask permission before getting that power. But many security p…
There are different methods of security, one where you assume the user is trusted but that the programs are not and one where you assume the user and the programs are not trusted. iOS is the second version. Linux with flatpak and SELinux is the first one. It is certainly possible to secure Linux a lot while still allowing the user to tweak whatever they want. There is a tool called flatseal which lets you adjust the…
Qubes OS is perfectly usable if you are a technical person and describes itself as "reasonably secure" https://www.qubes-os.org/ . They take the security challenges of all the layers of the onion pretty seriously and have built a system that works well for many threat models. You do have to put up with some inconvenience (eg copying and pasting between vms etc) but you get a lot for that.
[1] https://invisiblethingslab.com/resources/2014/Software_compa...
It seems to me that a secure OS would be an OS I wouldn't care to use. It would be so locked down that I couldn't really tinker with it.
All I can do is mitigate the risks that I'm worried about the most. Those threats aren't such that I'd need to not use those devices/services. If they were I would simply not use them.
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Like many here, I’m sure, I would love to be able to physically disable my camera and microphone somehow but do not have that option.
https://puri.sm/security/
I don't understand the responses in this thread. Does nobody want an OS with a permissions system where you can reliably control access to resources? Or strong app sandboxing by default to keep chrome from sniffing your files (allegedly, this is virus scanning)? There isn't any loss of freedom with those as long as your super user can modify it all - its a gain of freedom in that you can have some control over what y…
What I did: my MacBook Pro now has two separate MacOS installations, each on a separate partition with full disk encryption/filevault enabled, and separate passwords/encryption keys. One is strictly 'personal' - it has the bare minimum of software installed, and everything remotely sensitive (email, banking, passwords) happens here. The other is where I code and install whatever I want, and nothing personal touches this OS.
It can be inconvenient during the day, but I also treat my smartphone as a secure device (iOS) so there's that.
I don't understand the responses in this thread. Does nobody want an OS with a permissions system where you can reliably control access to resources? Or strong app sandboxing by default to keep chrome from sniffing your files (allegedly, this is virus scanning)? There isn't any loss of freedom with those as long as your super user can modify it all - its a gain of freedom in that you can have some control over what y…