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

• Carighan@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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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    • Arakwar@kbin.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      You’re a sysadmin, you’ll figure it out one day. But here’s a clue : why would you need to protect a windows folder from being written into by windows-based malwares from a linux OS ?

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    • Carighan@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Well how else would that work? You need a piece of software to enforce the permissions. Once that Software is gone, nothing exists to stop you.

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      • stappern@lemmy.one ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        but then dont call it a security thing, its just an annoyance. you encrypt your data if you dont want others to read it.

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