Technology adoption will always lead to misuse or gaming the system. Computers can never be truly safe and secure. If it is then it will be highly restricted. That’s the trade-off.
Reasonable security can be achieved. Security researchers have often toyed with the idea that security breaches should be localised through compartmentalisation. So if you install a bad software then it ideally should not impact everything else in your computer.
Quine’s OS is an interesting project towards this direction.
There's really no substitute for everyone thinking carefully about security for themselves. A formative experience for me was watching the evolution of browsers from a sandbox to protect our crown jewels to a receptacle for our crown jewels. There is no security research that can avoid this devolution as long as people blindly do each day what they did the previous day.
abhisek•5h ago
Reasonable security can be achieved. Security researchers have often toyed with the idea that security breaches should be localised through compartmentalisation. So if you install a bad software then it ideally should not impact everything else in your computer.
Quine’s OS is an interesting project towards this direction.
https://www.qubes-os.org/
akkartik•4h ago
(I'm the author of OP.)