Trying to authenticate or make an account via Google seems to cause a whole load of issues where the registration won't complete. Is this a bug on my part or do others experience this too? Thanks
I wanted to be more auth because I think it allows to preserve culture and national sovereignty more, but I also don't like mass surveillance, ID verification, and things that I've grown to be wary of when I see the news.
I am pretty free market, conservative, and nationalist though. Awesome :D
You can freely critique if you want
The recent exploit that has been uncovered, which has laid dormant for 9 years is an extreme example of how Linux distros are not secure operating systems. The truth is that any malicious actor in those 9 years could have discovered this and find a way to gain direct control, all in one simple Python script.
Xint Code audited the /crypto subsystem in an hour and found this vulnerability among others. If they can find that extreme vulnerability in ONE subsystem in 1 hour, imagine how many more are unnoticed that can have devastating consequences for millions of computers around the world.
The XZ Utils Backdoor is also a huge example where a threat actor ("Jia Tan") tried to gain remote access to Linux servers. If the CPU usage caused by xz was unnoticed, the consequences would devastate cyberinfrastructure. Just because you are an unpaid volunteer doesn't make you invincible to social engineering.
This proves that:
If there were just a few more percent of the operating system market share that used Linux, these exploits would be a dime a dozen, especially considering the fanaticism of the Linux community to dismiss any criticisms of the kernel or distributions as "bootlicking". In such a scenario, malicious actors would scrutinize Linux to a much higher degree than they already do and would discover even more and potentially more potent exploits.
Windows development doesn't suffer security flaws to this scale so frequently. Because the source code is proprietary and the development is centralized, bugs happen less and the ones that happen rarely are easily mitigated through feedback and a much more comprehensive understanding of the Windows operating system than the fragmented ecosystem of Linux. If Windows had the same philosophy as Linux, computers would be unusable.
Stop using operating systems that don't care about the user.
