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how to be secure for idiots? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 3 days ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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linux isnt immune to viruses even though its not as bad as windows

what should i do to be safe if i have a safe browser, vm, but pirate and download risky things? i know its a vm but i still dont want to have to delete everything in the vm if something happens. also the malware doesnt go to the router and spread rigt????

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[–] 7 points 3 days ago (4 children)

I have always kept everything airgapped, the best security is isolation.

I download stuff to a tablet, with nothing of value or interest on it, dump it to the sd card, then move it to the offline systems with a USB card reader.

Even my servers (mostly ARM SBCs with one RISC-V) were set up to work over a wired offline network.

Also most of my pirated stuff is things I own that I yarred for the crack if it was more convenient than cracking it myself.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 days ago (3 children)

    Not gonna lie, that sounds like overkill unless you’re doing something massively illegal. Your system makes no sense for preventing detection of torrent downloading since the download to the tablet could be detected just like the download to a server, and any precaution to avoid torrent surveillance on the tablet could easily be done on the server itself.

    So…are you doing something massively illegal? Take a seat…

    Chris Hansen looking like he knows what you did

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  • [–] 1 point 2 days ago (2 children)

    I have nothing to hide, but I also have nothing I want them to see.

    Given the coice between paranoid and lazy more need to choose the former.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 days ago (1 child)

    What they could see is the transmission over the internet to the tablet. If they detect torrent activity to the tablet, it wouldn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out where the files went, and it wouldn’t even matter because the crime is in the transmission. They wouldn’t even have to raid your house or anything, they would just sue you and show IP logs.

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