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Comment by Nextgrid

5 months ago

Any malware capable of exfiltrating a file from your home folder is also capable of calling the export command and tricking you into providing biometrics.

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asteroidburger  5 months ago

Not necessarily; "read file" is very different from "execute command." The biometrics part is a substantial lift as well.

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