Parts of it seem to be inherently more secure, but there are some pretty glaring holes. At least software distribution is much more secure than the Windows approach.
I’d say the biggest, most glaring hole is that, much like in Windows, most users don’t really understand the file system and user and group permissions.
Linux, as an OS, requires a lot more on the users part in understanding basic security right out of the gate.
A lot of folks out here dropping chmod 777 all over the place just because they haven’t had any education on how any of it works.
Source: Years ago, being a newb without knowledge or education, dropping chmod 777 all over the place
Parts of it seem to be inherently more secure, but there are some pretty glaring holes. At least software distribution is much more secure than the Windows approach.
It has the ability to lock things down a lot more. Also, it doesn’t necessarily have a big attack surface
I’d say the biggest, most glaring hole is that, much like in Windows, most users don’t really understand the file system and user and group permissions.
Linux, as an OS, requires a lot more on the users part in understanding basic security right out of the gate.
A lot of folks out here dropping
chmod 777
all over the place just because they haven’t had any education on how any of it works.Source: Years ago, being a newb without knowledge or education, dropping
chmod 777
all over the placeFedora silver blue ftw. Immutable systems are the future.
They used to login as root