Is desktop Linux secure for online banking?
>>107710757No, I have a degree in computer science
>>107710757i downloaded the linux and the hackers stole my rupees from my bank
Your phone is unironically much more secure than desktop Linux, so it's better to use that for banking. GrapheneOS community and devs are in agreement on this
You can make it safe by never updating any of those random sketchy utility programs that bloat your OSthat filters almost all troonixers though>umm so what if I don't use a printer? there's a printer UPDOOT, you don't understand, I NEED the updoot because updoot makes me feel good
>>107710782>Windows 11 more secure than DebainI kinda get the point. If you are focused on a full attack chain specifically designed for Debian, it's probably easier than W11. In the real world, W11 is by far the biggest target for such activities and that tips the scale. Its security by obscurity in action no matter how much people claim that's not security
Define secure, my Gentoo shitbox is secure against evil maid attack by virtue of my room smelling of rotten cum so much that my parents never walk into it anymore.
>>107710770Retard
>>107710782>Windows 11 more secureexcept for the part where bitlocker is backdoored lmao
>>107710837Secure as in I can download Falkon or a Firefox-based browser, log into Citibank or order things from Media Market or on Aliexpress and not have my credentials intercepted and stolen. I can deal with the evil maid myself.
>>107710782>glowpheno>>107710837kek
>>107710860youll be alright. if you KNOW what you're doing, you can make any distro the most secure and locked-in thing.
>>107710860All certificates are backdoored and if you assume that you have malware on your OS then you already lost, I don't have malware on my OS though, I don't use systemd, I have very few daemons, most of them run as an user "nobody", I compile all software locally, if I cannot compile it I don't bother trying to use it, etc etc
>>107710757so every op on this site is a bot or a paid actor at this point right? i tried posting a new thread 3 times and did the fuckin captcha and it still said it failed and to retry or buy a pass.
>>107710860do you have serious threat actors actively working against you or do you just like clicking banner ads on porn sites and downloading shady files?
>>107710898lel>>107710890do you compile your own kernel too? read every line of code of every program you run?
>>107710913Yes, my kernel is custom configured for my machine, doesn't even have wifi drivers in it.No, I don't waste my time reading code, but malware is not in code, it's obfuscated and hidden in binary files, even xz backdoor itself.
>>107710757Install BOSS Linux sir as it's very secure and protect you against all evil.
>>107710782wouldn't a good hardware firewall be all you need?at least for static machines that is.
>>107710782>Your phone is unironically much more secure than desktop LinuxI can't hear you over the Xiaomi sending live telemetry to CCP and Google sending live telemetry to NSA.
>>107710989Only phones really get secure boot right so any exploit has a much greater chance of becoming germaneness. Qubes is #1 desktop because you have to break out of hardware security because VM as well. Linuxes at the bottom because the initramfs is not verified so you can replace the init system with a poisoned oneOutside of this academic look you are still less likely to be pwned running a Linux desktop than windows if your web browser is chromium based and also a flatpak
>>107711084and don't forget samsung sending live telemetry to israel
>>107711321Brave recommends against using flatpak because it can interfere with chromium's native sandboxing.
>>107711365They may be wrong about that though. It is more likely hackers have an unknown vuln found in chromium than in flatpak
I imagine if you enable and configure your firewall, and keep up with your software updates, it should be as secure as any other OS. Most distro don't have it enabled by default for whatever reason. Fedora being the exception.
Are you banking on it being safe?
