azha@lemm.ee to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 days agoWe dont need onelemm.eeimagemessage-square97fedilinkarrow-up1695
arrow-up1695imageWe dont need onelemm.eeazha@lemm.ee to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 days agomessage-square97fedilink
minus-square🦄🦄🦄@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up4·6 days agoI was just wondering, would immutable distros be even less affected than Unix systems in general?
minus-squareGreenKnight23@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·6 days agodepends. is your bios writable? do programs stay written to memory after cycle?
minus-squarePossibly linux@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·6 days agoThere is no security benefit with immutable Linux
minus-square🦄🦄🦄@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·6 days agoCan you elaborate? Wouldn’t malware need to install something which would not happen on an immutable?
minus-squareEnsignWashout@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkarrow-up3·5 days 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 linux@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 days agoIf malware has root access it can do whatever it wants Things like SElinux and sandboxing is what secures systems.
minus-squareJoYo@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 days agois that the goal with immutable distros? i thought they were primarily used for rollbacks.
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?
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.
is that the goal with immutable distros? i thought they were primarily used for rollbacks.