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minus-square🦄🦄🦄@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up4·9 hours agoI was just wondering, would immutable distros be even less affected than Unix systems in general?
minus-squareGreenKnight23@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·7 hours agodepends. is your bios writable? do programs stay written to memory after cycle?
minus-squareJoYo@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 hours agois that the goal with immutable distros? i thought they were primarily used for rollbacks.
minus-squarePossibly linux@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 hours agoThere is no security benefit with immutable Linux
minus-square🦄🦄🦄@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·8 hours agoCan you elaborate? Wouldn’t malware need to install something which would not happen on an immutable?
minus-squareEnsignWashout@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 hours 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.
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.