azha@lemm.ee to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoWe dont need onelemm.eeexternal-linkmessage-square86fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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minus-square🦄🦄🦄@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 months agoI was just wondering, would immutable distros be even less affected than Unix systems in general?
minus-squarePossibly linux@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoThere is no security benefit with immutable Linux
minus-square🦄🦄🦄@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 months agoCan you elaborate? Wouldn’t malware need to install something which would not happen on an immutable?
minus-squareEnsignWashout@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 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-squareGreenKnight23@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 months agodepends. is your bios writable? do programs stay written to memory after cycle?
I was just wondering, would immutable distros be even less affected than Unix systems in general?
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.
depends.
is your bios writable?
do programs stay written to memory after cycle?