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File Mutability and Why Unix-based systems are insecure (www.youtube.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Not my video. Just felt it fits here for more discussion. Personally I do like the idea of more/better sandboxing for apps.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

So yeah, the argument stated in this video makes no sense to me.

I kind of took it that in traditional way of installing things apps can read/write pretty much anywhere in the users home. I also did not follow his shell example.