Security. Rarely discussed in Linux(?).. Was scammed recently; naive me let a man w/Bad accent take over my laptop to 'help refund BTC' & make me pay 100$. Because of that &/or me in Synaptic bloating (2 many) packages, which led to "1t fix broken packages", "put in Debian 10.9 Netinst cdrom", & "can't find key file" messages (yes, all 3 !). After trying "all" workarounds, I installed another, more simple Linux distro, built up a new setup of relevant programs to build VM, containers, websites, Debian iso image, & CHEF. Now Chef asks me to give URL to continue setting up a VM etc. Plz advise &/or help to do it/this. BR, GEG
On Wed, 21 Jul 2021, 18:59 Dan Ritter, <[email protected]> wrote: > Reco wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 21, 2021 at 10:51:40AM -0400, Celejar wrote: > > Numbers show that I was incorrect. Let's call it "unlikely" instead of > > "rare". Let the popcon graphs speak for themselves: > > > > https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=firefox-esr > > vs > > https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=openjdk-11 > > Standard reminder: popcon vastly over-represents > individually-owned laptops and desktops over servers and > corporately-owned anything. > > In this case, individuals are sometimes infected with ransomware > by happenstance, but corporates are actually targets. > > > It won't by itself, of course. One sure way to beat ransomware is to > > take immutable backups (i.e. unmodifiable by host during and after the > > backup is taken), and as recent history shows us - ransomware victims > > apparently do not use this approach. > > Yes indeed. > > -dsr- > >
