Comment on Every time i have to use windows again my IQ slips a point or two

• Carighan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You can nuke a linux-permission-controlled folder from an account that does not have that permission? How did you misconfigure your linux to allow that?!

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  • stappern@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    didnt configure anything i booted a live iso and it worked

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    • Carighan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Aaah, I get it.

      Yeah of course that works. If you disable the entire permission framework, naturally permissions can no longer stop you (this is where something like Bitlocker would step in so that even if someone takes the physical drive out they cannot just read from it).

      But importantly the same would of course work the other way around. Linux permissions mean fuck all if there’s no Linux around to enforce them, you can just delete whatever then.

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      • stappern@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        but thats the thing that confuses me, what is the point of these permissions if you can just go around them with another os? this is just a limitation for windows itself, i dont get it

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