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Malicious KDE theme can wipe out all your data
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This is not a defense against bad actor, but defense against bugs in bash script, which is quite common. Another idea is to introduce a new trash command
xdg-trashto replacerm. But both of these cannot stop malicious actors removing your file.I think even if we have a security suite, it is unlikely to detect bad actor recursively enumerating the file and delete them one by one, until many files were irrversably lost.
Antivirus has never been a proper way to achieve security, I think the proper way to defend against offensive
rmis probably sandboxing.