Some of you think that the way to prevent malware is to use an Antivirus. Many of you know that I don't use an Antivirus and I don't believe in them for personal use. But where there is the potential for elevated risk, what is the insurance for safety?
The answer is an Immutable VM. I've just released a video on making a Windows 11 VM under Linux. But VM's can be Linux as well and the performance is practically like bare-iron nowadays. So there isn't much of a performance issue with this.
Let's talk about how you use this technology to get super secure.
You can use the instructions in the VM video to implement this but this topic is more about the WHY.
Something very basic that the average person does not care about even if they knew about it. Your every click on a website is tracked. Every single one. How does this work? Surprisingly easy enough to understand yet apparently no one wants to explain this.
There are ways around this for the privacy conscious but the mechanics of the tracking has to be fully understood.
A rant. The most irritating thing for those of us who are privacy conscious are comments like "what are you hiding?" or "as long as you follow the law who cares?" or "you're paranoid".
I'm sure I'm not alone on this. Well, if you get irritated by this, then there is nothing wrong with you. Ignore these NPCs but you also need a smart understanding of why you do need to care and why these NPCs are the ones who are wrong.
The intent to scan content to counter end-to-end encryption is no longer theoretical with the passing of the UK Online Safety Bill.
How would the OS makers then build in client-side scanning? Let's tackle a theoretical project to do this on your favorite operating system (Windows, MacOS, iOS, Android).
This would be how I would do it.
