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How do you secure Arch? (lemmy.zip)
submitted 9 months ago by driveway@lemmy.zip to c/archlinux@lemmy.ml
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I have my firewall configured pretty restrictively. I am attempting to configure AppArmor but it seems to complicated.

How do you secure your desktop?

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[โ€“] driveway@lemmy.zip 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Same goes for any unofficial flatpak, right? And that is most of them.

[โ€“] tty5@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

In order from the most to the least secure:

  • distro repos: there is a process that is supposed to ensure no malicious changes make it through. Usually far enough behind recent code changes for new issues/code being compromised to be spotted
  • official package outside distro repos if packaging org has secure release workflow
  • building from source / official package on external repo if you know little about packaging org: malicious contributor or a compromised account is enough
  • unofficial package: like building from source, but you have to worry about package maintainer too