Hello there,

I have a question. If I’m doing windows linux dual boot, is there any possibiliy that windows can spy my data on linux? Or: if i got ransomwared on windows, is my linux part of my pc safe or not?

How can I prevent all above?

Thx

  • hendrik@palaver.p3x.de
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    5 days ago

    I don’t think Microsoft are that clever or malicious in that way. There are third party drivers available and I don’t know what all the Linux parts in Windows these days are able to do… So it’s definitely possible. But I think you’re looking more for a targeted attack with this. Like an agency or a hacker singling you out because they know you have valuable data on that filesystem. But Microsoft’s business model is more fishing for the easy targets and funneling data en masse, not the niche stuff… That might change at some point one day once the Linux subsystem automounts filesystems or something like that.