Ask HN: What's the best way to secure your workstation?

Re:Ask HN: What's the best way to secure your workstation? by butMyside on Sunday November 28, 2021 @05:33PM (#29373810)

Let’s hope the vulnerability isn’t injected into all the deps your OS pulls down to run the VM

Physics informs us a perfectly secure system is impossible.

We need to socially accept it rather than make ourselves paranoid.

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Re:Ask HN: What's the best way to secure your workstation? by bccdee on Sunday November 28, 2021 @07:10PM (#29374726)

You can never have a totally trustless system, but I think we could trust our applications a lot less than we trust them now.

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Re:Ask HN: What's the best way to secure your workstation? by Kototama on Monday November 29, 2021 @04:44AM (#29377923)

It's not all or nothing. We don't need to give up because some aspects of a system are insecure. There are different threats and different answers.

Qubes got it right in its philosophy. We either get system secured by correctness or by isolation. The former is not possible on a Linux developer machine.

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Re:Ask HN: What's the best way to secure your workstation? by spurgelaurels on Monday November 29, 2021 @10:13AM (#29380748)

There's a middle ground between accepting and paranoia: secure to best effort.

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