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by Tommek 1684 days ago
We reached a state where code monkeys believe they are developers. Of course you should know about the machine you are developing on.
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There's an insane amount of tooling with varying degrees of overlap. You've got SELinux, BPF, seccomp, AppArmor as different approaches to security. Each of these takes quite a bit of dedicated time to master and most of them have lots of nuance & there can be overlap depending on what you're trying to secure. In a work environment, I'd typically outsource this to security engineers/experts OR spend my time learning those things for what I need them for - knowing the tools are out there are sufficient starting points for research when I need that knowledge.

None of this applies to maintaining my development machine. You might want to revisit your gate keeping.

Im not a developer, but in the field I work in, a couple hours dedicated to learning a tool that would help you isnt much of an ask.

And the little demo script GP wrote seems pretty straight forward to me.

What other tasks are planned in your current sprint?
Then you are not a devolper but an assembly line worker.
Nah. I agree with the other guy. AppArmour takes some time to learn and isn't super mainstream yet. At least it's a step forward from SELinux, but it still feels uncooked and adhoc to me.