this post was submitted on 28 Aug 2023
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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

To add to the other security conscious comments, even if you wanted to run a VM, there are attacks that escalpe the VM and hit the underlining OS

Computers are inherently insecure

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

VM escape is really hard, wine is malware compitable

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Totally, difficult but by no means impossible. I think we should be cautious and have less hubris when it comes to computer security, that was my point