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by throwawayKiwi9 1355 days ago
Chromebooks offer some of the best consumer grade security around for PC hardware. Coreboot, firmware tamper detections, Disk encryption, tightened RBAC, kvm virtualization, lxc containerization, seamless a/b partition updating, optionally enable mandatory hardware 2fa keys... All on a simple touchscreen interface even Grandma can use and buy for as low as $100. Meanwhile, a huge number of Linux distributions still promote the use of x11 in their default experience. I'm not saying Google is without recourse, but they work harder than most with their security and it shows pretty clearly to me. Who are you trying to compare them to? Do they not send the formidable Project Zero on their internal projects regularly?