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silver_sunyesterday at 6:11 PM2 repliesview on HN

If you're running a malicious user process with write (or read) access to your files, you are arguably already compromised.


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LinXitoWyesterday at 6:16 PM

The freaking point is that basically anything worth running will have that amount of access, even Flatpaks. And you don't freaking know what's malicious before hand.

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inigyouyesterday at 6:30 PM

Exactly the point. You are already fully compromised, sudo adds no security.