Post #3770648
2026-07-12 10:44 UTC
Do you use a Mac? Do you use Homebrew? Does the fact that Homebrew leaves /usr/local (or /opt/local) writable to any software you run keep you awake at night?
#MacOS #HomeBrew
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@ewenmcneill@cloudisland.nz 2026-07-12 22:31
@kbob@chaos.social yes, yes, no. (Ie Mac user, HomeBrew user, not kept awake by that.) It’s… not my favourite design choice. But on a “basically single user” system, with lots of other user-writable areas usable as hooks for malware (eg excessive modern reliance on putting things in ${HOME}), in the end I concluded it didn’t make a particularly meaningful security difference. Everything that really matters is already read/write by my user ID anyway.