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Q&A What are the concrete security risks of forcibly terminating a process?

I'm using the Gnome System Monitor in Linux Mint. Whenever I attempt to "End" or "Kill" a process, I am given this warning via a modal dialog (emphasis mine): Killing a process may destroy data,...

2 answers  ·  posted 7mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭  ·  last activity 8d ago by Kamil Maciorowski‭

Question security kill
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Q&A What's the point of faillock?

On a default Arch install, faillock makes it so that if you enter the sudo password wrong too many times, even the correct password will be rejected until the timer is up. At the same time, you ca...

0 answers  ·  posted 2mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

Question security sudo
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Q&A Looking for a way to sync dotfile content between different machines without introducing security issues

I switch between three computers and have never been able to keep my dotfiles in sync. I cannot put them into source control because they contain sensitive data. So, my question is: how do I share ...

3 answers  ·  posted 5mo ago by paulsweatte‭  ·  last activity 4mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Q&A How to create ed25519 subkey in GPG?

At the moment GPG only offers the following options when generating a new subkey the with the addkey command: gpg> addkey Please select what kind of key you want: (3) DSA (sign only) (...

1 answer  ·  posted 8mo ago by Iizuki‭  ·  last activity 8mo ago by Iizuki‭

Question security GPG
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Q&A How to securely erase data from a thumb (solid state) drive

How do you securely erase data from a thumb (USB/flash) drive? With traditional (magnetic/spinny) hard drives, it used to be that you could use various tools to simply overwrite with random data, ...

1 answer  ·  posted 8mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  edited 8mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Q&A Privacy focused Linux distro [closed]

Suggest me the most security and privacy focused Linux distro within three of them given below. Fedora Qubes OS Whonix. Please help me to choose. Thank you.

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by abarajithanjudith‭  ·  closed 1y ago by ArtOfCode‭

Question linux security Fedora
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Q&A How to detect if a Linux Docker host has had unwelcome guests?

I plan to set up a Raspberry Pi to host some dockerized apps, for it to be accessible to the Internet through a remote proxy, and since I'm no sysadmin, I'm trying to come up with a suitable policy...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by nnlei‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Canina‭

Question raspbian security