Firefox 104 released

Posted Aug 28, 2022 12:34 UTC (Sun) by geuder (subscriber, #62854)
In reply to: Firefox 104 released by mjg59
Parent article: Firefox 104 released

Right, the old model of root can do everything has been known to be not enough for ages. Then we got CAP_SYS_MAINTAINER which did not really help that much...

In a single user system like my Linux workstation or also any R&D system I need to do performance analysis on full access is what I want.

On the other side having my code running in the cloud, doesn't make me wanting that the sysadmin or even my virtual neighbor can extract my keys. But with current hardware that's never fully impossible, at least not in the sysadmin case.

What surprised me here that a Linux driver has been removed, obviously with the argument that it can be misused by root? Or what was the exact argument of privileged-only drivers should not exist in hwmon? It feels with this argument a lot of code would need to be removed from the kernel.