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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It hugely improves privacy and security

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago

no, it doesn't. Stuff doesn't have write access to / anyway. Immutability just means that I don't have write access either. Which makes no sene to me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago

How so?

The benefit is easy roll backs and roll forwards. The system is the same from a security perspective.