On: Ask HN: How do you trust that your personal machine is not compromised?

[krn]

> "Compromised" meaning that malware hasn't been installed or that it's not being accessed by malicious third parties. This could be at the BIOS, firmware, OS, app or any other other level.

I don't believe there is a way to be 100% certain, but if I had to go to a store and pick a new device with the lowest likelihood of being compromised, it would be a desktop, a laptop, or a tablet running ChromeOS[1].

[1] https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/chromiumos-design-docs/...

[gkbrk → krn]

Many would consider a ChromeOS device compromised from day one.

[krn → gkbrk]

From the privacy perspective, ChromeOS is no different than Windows and MacOS.

From the security perspective, it's much better, because every single app is running in a sandbox.

I don't even use Chrome for web browsing on ChromeOS, since Firefox works just fine with flatpak[1].

[1] https://support.google.com/chromebook/answer/9145439?hl=en

[account42 → krn]

> From the privacy perspective, ChromeOS is no different than Windows and MacOS.

And being stabbed is not that different from being shot. I'd rather not be subject to either.

At least with operating systems we do still have better choices for privacy than the three you mentioned.