On: Little Snitch and the deprecation of kernel extens...

[overgard]

That's pretty broad. I have a gaming machine with practically no personal data on it, I just want it to be fast. But the tradeoffs for my work machine are way different. Security is ALWAYS a tradeoff. If we wanted perfect airline security we'd fly naked.

Also not like limiting vulnerabilities to user space is always a big improvement. If someone hacks my user account on a single user computer, they have access to all the data I care about anyway. They could ransomeware my stuff even without kernel access.

[rasteau → overgard]

The trade off is not installing Little Snitch.

[philistine → overgard]

A gaming machine with no personal data on it. We call that a console, and they are indeed built for speed above all else.

[Hamuko → philistine]

Consoles are really built for a price point above all else. Hence why they're always lacking in performance compared to contemporary gaming PCs.

[sitkack → Hamuko]

They also take security very very seriously.

[stavros → sitkack]

Consoles take DRM safety seriously, the fact that that aligns with user security is purely coincidental.

[m463 → philistine]

Except companies are really quite adept at identifying the person connected to all the "no personal data".

[kyuudou → overgard]

Correct, it's an inversely proportional relationship, security vs. convenience and/or performance. I could care less if my gaming box gets owned but many others are much more serious about their gaming and would hence have other workarounds.