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    112 days ago

    I was just wondering, would immutable distros be even less affected than Unix systems in general?

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        012 days ago

        Can you elaborate? Wouldn’t malware need to install something which would not happen on an immutable?

        • @[email protected]
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          312 days ago

          Immutable distros can usually be set to mutable with the correct privileged command.

          It’s essentially security by obscurity. But I disagree with “no benefit”. An infection miss through dumb luck is still a miss, after all.

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          111 days ago

          If malware has root access it can do whatever it wants

          Things like SElinux and sandboxing is what secures systems.

    • JoYo
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      112 days ago

      is that the goal with immutable distros? i thought they were primarily used for rollbacks.