azha@lemm.ee to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoWe dont need onelemm.eeimagemessage-square96fedilinkarrow-up1702
arrow-up1702imageWe dont need onelemm.eeazha@lemm.ee to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square96fedilink
minus-square🦄🦄🦄@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up4·2 months agoI was just wondering, would immutable distros be even less affected than Unix systems in general?
minus-squareGreenKnight23@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·2 months agodepends. is your bios writable? do programs stay written to memory after cycle?
minus-squarePossibly linux@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoThere is no security benefit with immutable Linux
minus-square🦄🦄🦄@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months agoCan you elaborate? Wouldn’t malware need to install something which would not happen on an immutable?
minus-squareEnsignWashout@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 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-squarePossibly linux@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoIf malware has root access it can do whatever it wants Things like SElinux and sandboxing is what secures systems.
minus-squareJoYo@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months 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.