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If you are adding yourself to the docker group, you have presumably read the documentation and its warnings. Does an Omarchy user know the distro has made the decision on their behave?

TFA spells out why this is wrong better than I could.

> There is another important aspect of this configuration. It was opt-out, not opt-in. A user did not have to actually use Docker. The security tradeoff was made for them, applied to the default account, and the tradeoff was not explained to the user.

> Security-sensitive defaults matter precisely because many users reasonably assume that the operating system defaults to secure and will inform or prompt them to opt-in to less secure settings.



I am not disagreeing at all. Nor am I trying to claim this behavior is safe.

I’m just pointing out the level-set that I’m sure the first time someone installs docker and tries to use it, chances are they are just going to install themselves in the docker group without considering the impact and continue on their day.




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