Ban China, Russia and India IP space. Problem solved.
Edit: what’s with the downvotes? Burned much? Hey, try looking at your failed ssh login attempts before and after doing this. You’re welcome.
A Guide to Not Getting Hacked
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#32> Do use antivirus I think the standard advice from the security community is to not use any antivirus at all and maybe only Windows Defender if you're on windows. The advice to use Tor browser is also terrible. The Tor browser is based on an older version of Firefox ( currently version 52 vs 57 for upstream Firefox ) and so might contain known bugs. On a side note what does the security community think about Qubes O…
Why not use antivirus ? they are a good protection against downloaded content (email attachements, downloaded file) no ?
The last leg for me was TLS MiTM as an antivirus service. And so I don't use 3rd party antivirus on systems that I care about. I do use active firewalls and connection monitoring though, and I only install software that I've purchased (or open source software) on those systems. Perhaps ironically, I do have antivirus on my old laptop dedicated to watching ahem massage videos.
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#33"Camera access" - let's discuss this in more detail. So I am not convinced that I need to put that ugly piece of sticker onto my laptop camera. Is this really a big problem on Mac or no. Is there another alternative than putting some ugly sticker on a beautiful laptop?
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#34I've lately only been using Linux on my laptop and desktop, but my grandparents recently asked me about advice on a new computer. Is the current best practice to avoid all antivirus software and assume Windows 10 is secure with whatever is built in? Grandpa thinks Avast makes his computer secure and is using their custom browser for his banking. Is my great distrust in all antivirus systems as worse than the viruses…
Grandpa should probably use a chromebook. It's cheap, it's not as targeted as windows systems, and doesn't need AV. On the downside he'll be locked into the Google ecosystem, but for his needs that might not be so much of a problem.
If it becomes a problem, GalliumOS is actually good enough in most cases to use as a daily driver on a Chromebook.
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#35This is overwhelmingly terrible advice. It even tells you to install a mobile antivirus !
Most of the advice seems to be very sound to me other than the mobile anti virus. I've used Lookout several times on Android, and it does nothing to prevent malicious software, I know from personal experience when I Android got Malware and lookout scan reported everything is fine.
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#36Pretty solid guide, considering sharing this with all your family and friends on Facebook, email etc as an average Joe can learn a lot from this.
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#37I've lately only been using Linux on my laptop and desktop, but my grandparents recently asked me about advice on a new computer. Is the current best practice to avoid all antivirus software and assume Windows 10 is secure with whatever is built in? Grandpa thinks Avast makes his computer secure and is using their custom browser for his banking. Is my great distrust in all antivirus systems as worse than the viruses…
Grandpa should probably use a chromebook. It's cheap, it's not as targeted as windows systems, and doesn't need AV. On the downside he'll be locked into the Google ecosystem, but for his needs that might not be so much of a problem. If it becomes a problem, GalliumOS is actually good enough in most cases to use as a daily driver on a Chromebook.
Grandpa will be better off with an iPad since iPad has way more apps than Chromebook and is more intuitive and user friendly than Android or Chromebook. iPad can can work offline, more portable and convenient to read (pinch and zoom etc) and to write, type with a keyboard that you can connect or touch type on screen. Not to mention Apple will protect his privacy more than Google will.
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#38"Camera access" - let's discuss this in more detail. So I am not convinced that I need to put that ugly piece of sticker onto my laptop camera. Is this really a big problem on Mac or no. Is there another alternative than putting some ugly sticker on a beautiful laptop?
If you don't use it you can disconnect it from the motherboard. ifixit.com can help you find the connector.
Re: A Guide to Not Getting Hacked
#39I've lately only been using Linux on my laptop and desktop, but my grandparents recently asked me about advice on a new computer. Is the current best practice to avoid all antivirus software and assume Windows 10 is secure with whatever is built in? Grandpa thinks Avast makes his computer secure and is using their custom browser for his banking. Is my great distrust in all antivirus systems as worse than the viruses…
I share your intuition. Absent credible evidence to the contrary, I would not use anything on Windows other than the default from Microsoft. On the other hand, I probably wouldn't expend a lot of energy arguing with Grandpa when Grandpa has decided Grandpa knows better.
However, my first level advice would be not to do banking online, but that's another story.
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#40"Camera access" - let's discuss this in more detail. So I am not convinced that I need to put that ugly piece of sticker onto my laptop camera. Is this really a big problem on Mac or no. Is there another alternative than putting some ugly sticker on a beautiful laptop?
I printed a blank strip of "White on Black" label tape and stuck it over on my MBP. I only see it when I'm in a super bright environment, such as in sunlight. Otherwise I forget its there.