• tourist@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    Sounds stressful.

    Is it not like having a stockpile of live weapons where you have to keep checking if the safeties are on?

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      9 hours ago

      Not really. You’re not at much risk of harming yourself with the tools, and if an attacker is already on your system able to execute arbitrary software, you’re already pretty well pwned

      Which isn’t to say it doesn’t present any risk, just that it’s relatively negligible in a personal computing environment. In a corporate environment, you’d need strict controls on who can use those tools and when