antifa_ceo comments on Linux is NOT private out of the box

[–] antifa_ceo@lemmy.ml 48 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

I disagree. If its keeping everything local it is inherently private. These system tools are there for security and auditing and troubleshooting. If you are worried about someone getting into your system and doing nefarious shit secure your device better don't disable OS level functionality.

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[–] Zelaf@sopuli.xyz 24 points 9 months ago (1 child)

If someone can read your journal logs and your kernel logs you're already fucked.

Dmesg requires root. The journal requires group permission. That would mean they're either hacked in remotely through either your account or through root. Or they have physical access. The latter which can be resolved using LUKS.

If someone is in remotely you're already screwed as that can mean they can easily get autostarting scripts going or malware.

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[–] antifa_ceo@lemmy.ml 6 points 9 months ago

Yeah agreed. You have much bigger problems to deal with if someone is getting access to these things without your permission.

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