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Re:Progress update from the Librem 5 hardware department by madez on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @10:14AM (#17918135)
Well, I sandbox closed source apps by running them as a different user that doesn't have access to my $HOME.
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Re:Progress update from the Librem 5 hardware department by pjmlp on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @10:33AM (#17918306)
That isn't enough to protect from kernel bugs, as discussed at Linux Security Summit, hence kernel self protection project and related initiatives, mostly driven by Google regarding Android security.

If you use Qubes OS then it is another matter.

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Re:Progress update from the Librem 5 hardware department by madez on Saturday September 08, 2018 @02:34PM (#17942105)
You are being unreasonable because you equate the hypothetic possibility of malicious code execution by Apple or Google due to bugs with running an OS from either on hardware from them.
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