Old phone means old unsupported vendor version of the linux kernel vulnerable to script kiddie exploits.

Any chance for an official flatpak? The current one on Flathub is outdated and requires lots of permissions because they couldn’t figure out xdg portals.

Why exactly should I hate it? This doesn’t look that scary to me, I feel like it’s just climbing up from the uncanny valley.

You’re mostly right, but I disagree about the bit about paid software and vetted developers. Open source like Linux is also mostly developed by programmers hired by companies, so there’s no difference there. Proprietary software has also had problems with malicious developers and there’s less transparency there.

Desktop Linux so far was meant to be a fun general purpose computing experience for geeks. Throwing extra security layers on it evidently spoils some of that fun, you can see how Linux nerds react to things like Polkit, SELinux, Wayland or Flatpak. But PCs in general suck at security, they’re based on legacy tech from an era when cybersecurity wasn’t even a concept.

Huh, I’ve been following “This Week in GNOME”, didn’t realise KDE is doing the same thing. Thanks for sharing, I’m gonna follow both, it’s nice to see progress in Linux desktop, even if it’s not my personal choice of software.

None of the articles I’ve read about this explains how the GDID gets mapped onto the user’s activity.

“Windows device carrying GDID g:6755467234350028 had visited the ngrok signup page”

So does it mean that Windows monitors your activity outwith just Microsoft services and sends all data to their servers? Is it maybe MS Edge history sync?

Can anyone break even AES-128 without years of supercomputer time?

Security

When you use X11, you allow any program running on your computer to access anything on your screen and clipboard, collect your keystrokes and type. It’s trivial to implement a keylogger, for example. Do not buy into the whole “no viruses on Linux” thing, it’s not true and likely to become even less and less true, as desktop Linux is becoming popular.

Wayland at least tries to put some barriers in place against this.

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