[tonymet]

Even comparing non sudo / non-privileged, Windows OS & Defender have many more protections. Controlled Folder Access restricts access to most of the home directory . And Defender Real-time is running during install and run. Windows stores secrets in TPM, which isn’t used on Linux desktop. The surface area of malicious code is much smaller.

A bash script is only guarded by file system permissions. All the sensitive content in the home directory is vulnerable. And running sudo embedded would mostly succeed.