On Fri 04 Feb 2022 at 21:41:24 (-0800), pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > From: David Wright <deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk> > Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2022 11:08:28 -0600 > > But hey, it could be quite exciting, like carrying a cocked > > revolver tucked into your waistband. One casual typo, one > > misplaced space, and you can blow away a whole disk. > > System destruction is exasperating. Lapse in security is another > risk; possibly more serious. My knowledge is meagre and this was > helpful. > > The Illusion of Privacy/Security using ANY Web-browser > https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?t=1583
I didn't get far down the first page, and certainly not through all 53 posts, before reaching: "Think a different Operating System provides any greater security? privacy? because under it you run as a User with limited privileges? Well, I booted into Linux Mint Ulyana. Iron web-browser required that I provide a password to run it. But once it was running, Atttachments>Add gave me access to my mounted hard-drive.. And worse than under Puppies, Linux Mint Ulyana would automatically mount partitions which weren't already mounted. :shock:" There's no explanation of what "password" was given, so any conclusions are moot. But if the article is supposed to blow a hole in Puppy's securtiy model, well, so what. And then I read the fourth post, which seemed to be using umask and chmod to configure what Debian gives you already. > Mitigation of risk. > https://wikka.puppylinux.com/spot I don't know what "spot" and "fido" are all about, unless to recreate the conventional concept of Ordinary Users. > Rather than reinvent the wheel, I should use a product of extensive > development. > http://wikka.puppylinux.com/DebianDog > https://github.com/DebianDog/ That depends on whether you trust the system's developers. My trust in Debian has been forged through 25 years of use, and by reading technical reviews over the years by others. Cheers, David.
