[TriLUG] Running a home machine, not a server with processes exposed to the web, as long as you keep things up to date and don't go to sketchy places and download programs from untrusted sources, your risk is likely very low. As s safety measure use a decent hardware firewall and then run a software firewall like iptables or equivalent as a belt and suspenders.

[Matt Flyer via TriLUG]

On Jan 17, 2022 12:32 PM, Michael Rulison via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
>
> As an ordinary home 'user'  I would like to see some comments that put
> privacy and data security in context.
>
> By this I mean: how much danger and invasive-ness am I exposed to,
> compared to a computer at a company, small or large?
>



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