Anyone who owns an LG smart TV must inform all guests and family members that they are being monitored – this is required by LG’s current terms of use. Meanwhile, LG monitors install potential malware and surveillance software on a connected Windows computer.
  • OS2Warp@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    2 months ago

    THANK YOU!

    So many people just don’t get it; happy to see someone rational who does.

    I WISH Linux had something like this, but it’s like NT 4.0; it doesn’t have it.

    • enumerator4829@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      2 months ago

      It’s getting there, slowly.

      • Clevis can do network and TPM pinned disk decryption.
      • With Linux UKIs you can do self signed secure boot, we still need the mechanisms for central signing. This would actually be better that windows, you control your own PKI and Microsoft can’t sign garbage your machines boot.
      • Logs is a somewhat bogus argument - log falsification on Windows has been done too. But linux is rather unprotected in comparison.

      But the biggest issue is the mentality of ”I own my computer”. Sure, you own your private machine, but your company owns the computer you use for work and the data on it and has an interest in protecting that data from you. That particular threat model is hard to communicate, as Linux users normally don’t think of themselves as a threat vector.

      • OS2Warp@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Good to know they’re working on boot; what about something similar to AD and GPO?

        • enumerator4829@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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          2 months ago

          I hope no one tries to push GPO-like stuff on Linux. I get where you are coming from, but for example Puppet will give you a lot more power and and flexibility. There is no registry. ”Everything is a file” is actually true, you just manage a bunch of config files instead.

          As for AD, you have FreeIPA as the major contender. It works. You can also just join your Linux clients to your AD. Kerberos works just as expected.

          (RedHat actually tried pushing management of Gnome via FreeIPA á la GPO. It sucks, because the desktop environment is just a tiny part of what you might want to manage, so suddenly you need to have both that bullshit and your normal configuration management tool.)