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minus-square🦄🦄🦄linkfedilink1•4 months agoI was just wondering, would immutable distros be even less affected than Unix systems in general?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•4 months agodepends. is your bios writable? do programs stay written to memory after cycle?
minus-squareJoYolinkfedilinkEnglish1•4 months agois that the goal with immutable distros? i thought they were primarily used for rollbacks.
minus-squarePossibly linuxlinkfedilinkEnglish1•4 months agoThere is no security benefit with immutable Linux
minus-square🦄🦄🦄linkfedilink0•4 months agoCan you elaborate? Wouldn’t malware need to install something which would not happen on an immutable?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•4 months agoImmutable 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.
minus-squarePossibly linuxlinkfedilinkEnglish1•4 months agoIf malware has root access it can do whatever it wants Things like SElinux and sandboxing is what secures systems.
I was just wondering, would immutable distros be even less affected than Unix systems in general?
depends.
is your bios writable?
do programs stay written to memory after cycle?
is that the goal with immutable distros? i thought they were primarily used for rollbacks.
There is no security benefit with immutable Linux
Can you elaborate? Wouldn’t malware need to install something which would not happen on an immutable?
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.
If malware has root access it can do whatever it wants
Things like SElinux and sandboxing is what secures systems.