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Using computers more freely and safely

by JSLegendDev on 4/29/25, 6:06 PM with 5 comments

• by abhisek on 4/29/25, 6:16 PM

  Technology adoption will always lead to misuse or gaming the system. Computers can never be truly safe and secure. If it is then it will be highly restricted. That’s the trade-off.

  Reasonable security can be achieved. Security researchers have often toyed with the idea that security breaches should be localised through compartmentalisation. So if you install a bad software then it ideally should not impact everything else in your computer.

  Quine’s OS is an interesting project towards this direction.

  https://www.qubes-os.org/

• by Jtsummers on 4/29/25, 6:52 PM

  (2023) and a discussion from the time:

  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36113115 - 29 May 2023, 67 comments