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[–] 3 points 1 day ago (7 children)

What if you use for example ubuntu and wait 3 years?

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  • [–] 5 points 1 day ago

    I switched from Debian to an arch based distro. holy shit is it weird reading about some new things latest release only to have it pushed to the repo the same month or even the same day! I use btrfs so when things break its a 5 minute rollback and reboot.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 day ago (5 children)

    You’d still be fine if you’re not exposing public services or visiting actively-malicious websites.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago (4 children)

    You are underestimating things. Unmalicious websites can still host malicious content by users, for example.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 day ago* (3 children)

    Okay, wanna give me a link to a PoC example you set up?

    I’ll reimage my laptop to an old Ubuntu ISO of your choice, and visit your link. Happy to be proven wrong.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    No, I will not spend hours of my time to win an irrelevant internet argument. :P

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago* (1 child)

    Fair enough!

    But I can tell you as a cybersecurity expert that you’d have a hard time finding a way to get any sort of remote execution from user-generated content on any major site, much less an exploitable browser sandbox escape.

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  • [–] 2 points 18 hours ago

    I think web browser exploits wouldn't be an issue on ubuntu anyways, as major web browsers do get regular upgrades there (or are not even installed via apt but snap nowadays). Also web browsers use sandboxes. I'm more worried about users downloading any kind of content and interacting with it via more niche software, like image viewers (though with glycin they nowadays also do sandboxing).

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