Re:Lockdown – The coming war on general-purpose computing (2...
by michaelmrose on Monday May 15, 2017 @02:34PM
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Linux official distro package repositories. Free open source software has had currated software repositories for many years and since hosting is quite cheap not much of a "business" model is required.
Don't want to deal with the official repository you can easily host your own and provide a package that adds your own repo and serves the latest and greatest version of your software. Want a solution that targets multiple distros and bundles deps there is no snappy.
Preventing untrusted users from installing software is also a solved problem. Require the root password or simply don't let them use sudo.
If you give morons and bad people physical access your machine AND permission to install software it seems to me that you have put you in a bad place where no amount of lockdown can render you safe.
Rather than make the futile effort to render your situation tenable when we know it wont how about we continue to improve actually feasible use cases?
Don't want to deal with the official repository you can easily host your own and provide a package that adds your own repo and serves the latest and greatest version of your software. Want a solution that targets multiple distros and bundles deps there is no snappy.
Preventing untrusted users from installing software is also a solved problem. Require the root password or simply don't let them use sudo.
If you give morons and bad people physical access your machine AND permission to install software it seems to me that you have put you in a bad place where no amount of lockdown can render you safe.
Rather than make the futile effort to render your situation tenable when we know it wont how about we continue to improve actually feasible use cases?