N.E.P.T.R

AOSP is fully open source. Google certified Android isn’t.

Sailfish is proprietary Linux. Gapps Android is proprietary AOSP. GrapheneOS is fully open-source and AOSP-based.

I stand by my point. Never use a proprietary OS of you care about your privacy. I don’t like proprietary Linux distros.

SailfishOS is proprietary. I would never trust a proprietary OS with my privacy.

I need to move or else I get antsy.

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LOL. Which song?

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Instead of using a whole new extension (which increase your attack surface), just

• Add this filterlist to uBlock Origin: https://gitlab.com/DandelionSprout/adfilt/-/raw/master/LegitimateURLShortener.txt
• Enable “AdGuard/uBO - URL Tracking Protection” filterlist

ClearURLs extensiom needs the ability to read and modify every link you visit, which is very dangerous. Highly recommend just using uBlock Origin because it can do the same thing.

Are these characters from something else?

Lol this is so fucking real.

Is that like the holes on a bowling ball?

He apologized IIRC. He has many other toxic beliefs, a quick web search will show that. It is good that he is no longer part of the greater linux community.

You don’t need to say the words “sandboxed” or “isolated” to say effectively the same thing. Your goal with distrobox was to keep the AUR malware separate from your normal system, no?

Security through obscurity is not security. The malware can do the same data exfiltration regardless of root access because the AUR malware has been about stealing secrets in user-readable directories. Setting a custom home for distrobox does not disallow access to the normal one.

Say for example that your default user home is /home/user and you set the distrobox home to /tmp/home

If you run ls $HOME inside distrobox it will list files in /tmp/home, but just as easily you could run ls /home/$USER and it would list in your default home. Or alternatively just use the find command and steal secrets without targeting the user home.

This is because changing the user home through distrobox doesn’t do anything about preventing directory traversal to your default home.

If your goal is to create a different environment and you don’t care that it won’t stop malware, use Incus or Podman directly. Distrobox is the wrong choice.

My point was simple: when dealing with malware, distrobox is not an effective method of creating a “different environment” because that is antithetical to its stated goals.

You can do whatever you want, I am not here to police your choice on your personal system. I only take issue with recommending this strategy to others.

Distrobox is not an isolated environment, it is quite the opposite. They say so themselves on their page:

Security implications

Isolation and sandboxing are not the main aims of the project, on the contrary it aims to tightly integrate the container with the host. The container will have complete access to your home, pen drive, and so on, so do not expect it to be highly sandboxed like a plain docker/podman container or a Flatpak.

I would argue that Docker isn’t a good way to stop malware either, since it is highly vulnerable to sandbox escape leveraging the shared host-guest kernel, like the many of LPEs that have been found in the last few months (example using copy-fail).

Docker is not a secure sandbox, Podman is not a secure sandbox, Flatpak is not a secure sandbox. Use a VM, or better yet, don’t use the AUR.