Hi. I wanted to know if it’s needed to install a firewall on a linux desktop/laptop. Why yes or why no?

  • @[email protected]
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    29 months ago

    You shouldn’t trust your device. Modern software is insanely complicated, even netbsd had an rce.

    • slazer2au
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      09 months ago

      Trust may be the worng word as Windows will be Windows but I know that no one is going to zero day my devices because I am not that high value of a target.

      • @[email protected]
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        09 months ago

        That’s a bad mentally as well. Most stacks these days are about quantity not quality. If you blindly hit 10000 targets it’s more profitable than trying to spear a single one.

        Akin to not wearing a seatbelt because you are unlikely to be killed by a sniper