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[–] uawarebrah@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It hugely improves privacy and security

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 21 hours ago

How so?

The benefit is easy roll backs and roll forwards. The system is the same from a security perspective.

[–] vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 10 hours ago

no, it doesn't. Stuff doesn't have write access to / anyway. Immutability just means that I don't have write access either. Which makes no sene to me.