Arian on Nostr: One fun thing of NixOS is that if you don't garbage collect, old versions stick ...
One fun thing of NixOS is that if you don't garbage collect, old versions stick around. This opens up a lot of fun possibilities of privilege escalation by abusing older vulnerable versions of software on disk.
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