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Exactly. Though security is an onion, so it is at least making it harder.

In the traditional Linux desktop model a vulnerability may allow to run something as the user. It can change your bashrc, your application menu as well as your launchers, your browser extensions and settings. You may already have a user writable directory in your PATH so it can replace things even on a lower level.




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