Still a bit open ended. Web browser finger printing is probably going to be quite specific, unless you have a browser that avoids fingerprinting.
There is a trust issue, you need to trust the userland packagers to not build in any additional tracking, but its pretty unlikely that they’ll do that given its a tiny project.
Privacy is also multifaceted, and its never going to be as simple as “use this distro”. The techniques for online tracking are changing and evolving all the time.
This is a bit of a “how long is a piece of string” question, security is multifaceted.
From what I understand, it uses your phones kernel, so if its out of date or vulnerable, that might be a problem, and you may not be able to fix that.
Conversely, its running inside android, so the android hardening might make it more secure.
What are you specifically concerned about? Firewall? Zero days? Antimalware?
In some ways, it might be best if he lives out his term golfing, because if he gets replaced, things can get far far worse.
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Thems fighting words, where else can I spend my centerlink on a bintang singlet?!
You are describing pickle, but it does come with some serious risks, especially if the file can be modified by a third party.
https://arjancodes.com/blog/python-pickle-module-security-risks-and-safer-alternatives/
I’d suggest using protobuf or similar instead, but its a bit more work.
Tangentially related, but when I switched my cat from commercial cat food to a raw chicken (w/ supplements) diet, her poops went from very bulky once a day, to shrivelled poops every-other day.
The amount of water in the chicken, and the lack of bulking ingredients made a huge difference.
/etc/passwd: you may be able to get to this from the GUI file manager.
If not, open a terminal and type: cat /etc/passwd. Copy the relevant lines.
To test the login, from a terminal, type su otheruser, replace otheruser with the username from /etc/passwd. It should ask for a password, put that in and it should log you in. Type whoami and make sure its the same username as you expected. Paste any errors here.
I think that was meant to be a reply to me, so I’ll respond.
Technically, /etc/passwd can have encrypted passwords in it, but as far as I’m aware, no distro has done that in decades, so realistically its not that risky. It does expose the user names though.
Can you share the lines from /etc/passwd for your user and the user your adding? Despite its name, there are no passwords here, that is in /etc/shadow
Edit: can you su to login as the user?
I prefer to think of it as an open relationship. I have my home distro, my work distro, and if either of them aren’t in the mood, there is an wide variety of other distros to get the job done.
And if I’m feeling really kinky, there’s always Windows.
I think it perfectly highlights what can happen when the risk/severity is blown out of proportion. People will latch on to that and waste precious time and energy defending that.
If the original guy had just published “CUPS has a RCE, firewall it if you haven’t already”, the issue would have been patched in the next release, and the world would have kept turning.
It was a really cool bug, and a great find, it didn’t need the hype
Didn’t know that, but makes sense.
if you are from Russia, it is impossible to convince the US that you are not a part of a state-sponsored entity
This quote from your article does nail the problem on the head though.
Excellent, thanks for the update!
Russians can still contribute, they just can’t be direct maintainers.
Nothing will likely change in the short term.
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We get drug spam and stock spam, no reason to expect that political spam is any less likely.
Lemmy has a huge amount of hardcore lefty’s. If you can get them to not vote, and especially if you can get them to tell their friends not to vote, that is a big win.
Astroturfing/sockpuppeting is dirty cheap to do, so no reason not to try.
You do see some users here that will post continously on about a certain topic repeatedly, with no other opinions. They might be legit, but I have my suspicions.
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