Massive risk in Windows 10 exposed

Erm you running GNU Windows and not Linux on Windows.

The correct term for bash and friends on Say Ubuntu is GNU Linux as Linux is only the Kernel.

Read https://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html for a proper understanding.

To technically the header should read GNU risk in Windows 10 exposed
 
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The title should be read: "Security risk for running Linux application inside Windows is exposed".
 
Unless you enable "Developer mode" and then select "Windows Subsystem for Linux", which most people wont do, there is zero risk.
 
NickLeStrange said:
It emulates the Linux kernel as well, so, in a super convoluted sense, a GNU Linux risk.

http://betanews.com/2016/04/24/windows-10-linux-subsystem/
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Emulate, like what Wine does for Linux. your own link says it: "Pico provider drivers (lxss.sys, lxcore.sys) that emulate a Linux kernel by translating Linux syscalls"

That said, good thing you have to jump a lot hurdles to get it running. 1st set Developer mode, then install Windows Subsystem and finally install Bash & friends after a reboot. Also the fact that its BETA makes that the security risk in the article is not that widespread.

While we on the subject of security it would be interesting to see what happens when it comes out of BETA and when Microsoft install it on normal user systems. Will we see a influx of Malware that targets both Windows and Linux systems alike as a lot of "click here" security threads normally target Windows users for now.
 
AlphaJohn said:
While we on the subject of security it would be interesting to see what happens when it comes out of BETA and when Microsoft install it on normal user systems.
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I don't think they will install it across the board as it's a feature that was requested by devs & sysadmins so I suspect you would still have to manually enable that feature but then again I could be wrong.
 
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