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Is using a "clear browsing data on exit" option a good practice or just irrelevant annoyance? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 days ago by bashghost2600@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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That question came up to me, when recently working on one project I needed to restart my PC several times. And therefore, while I used 3-5 web apps I needed to log back in to each one of them again, after each restart. And I started wondering if privacy-wise that auto-clear feature is worth it or not? Has anyone maybe tested that?

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[–] ultimate_worrier@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I run in impermanence mode with full LUKS decryption. I even hardened it further to require physical hardware for validation at boot. https://github.com/nix-community/impermanence

It’s interesting how easy it was to get used to.

Another project I like to use to verify the security properties of my OS is Vulnix. I have vulnix built right into my build script. Every time I update, I also get a full vulnerability report. To be totally transparent, though, I’ve been forced to ignore some vulnerabilities that are necessary evils for the niceties one tends to want in an OS. However, I might switch to Securix someday.

[–] ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What were the vulnerabilities?

[–] ultimate_worrier@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It’s not really wise to self dox, IMO. That would be like, “here’s how to hack me!” ;)

but a lot of them have to do with outdated versions of zlib. Try it on a derivation and find out.

Here’s someone else on the NixOS discourse with a similar experience: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/checking-and-dealing-with-cves