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Re:Little Snitch and the deprecation of kernel extensions by overgard on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @05:24PM (#22679183)
That's pretty broad. I have a gaming machine with practically no personal data on it, I just want it to be fast. But the tradeoffs for my work machine are way different. Security is ALWAYS a tradeoff. If we wanted perfect airline security we'd fly naked.

Also not like limiting vulnerabilities to user space is always a big improvement. If someone hacks my user account on a single user computer, they have access to all the data I care about anyway. They could ransomeware my stuff even without kernel access.

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Re:Little Snitch and the deprecation of kernel extensions by rasteau on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @05:44PM (#22679372)
The trade off is not installing Little Snitch.
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Re:Little Snitch and the deprecation of kernel extensions by philistine on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @05:41PM (#22679341)
A gaming machine with no personal data on it. We call that a console, and they are indeed built for speed above all else.
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Re:Little Snitch and the deprecation of kernel extensions by Hamuko on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @05:43PM (#22679362)
Consoles are really built for a price point above all else. Hence why they're always lacking in performance compared to contemporary gaming PCs.
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Re:Little Snitch and the deprecation of kernel extensions by sitkack on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @06:14PM (#22679658)
They also take security very very seriously.
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Re:Little Snitch and the deprecation of kernel extensions by StavrosK on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @07:05PM (#22680015)
Consoles take DRM safety seriously, the fact that that aligns with user security is purely coincidental.
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Re:Little Snitch and the deprecation of kernel extensions by m463 on Wednesday March 25, 2020 @06:09AM (#22683258)
Except companies are really quite adept at identifying the person connected to all the "no personal data".
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Re:Little Snitch and the deprecation of kernel extensions by kyuudou on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @07:12PM (#22680061)
Correct, it's an inversely proportional relationship, security vs. convenience and/or performance. I could care less if my gaming box gets owned but many others are much more serious about their gaming and would hence have other workarounds.
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