Re: cyber war / moving back to Linux

2022-04-16 Thread Eric Oyen via PLUG-discuss
Anyone remember the old Cold War mentality: defense in depth? That’s how I treat security here. The router has a firewall, the managed switch after it has dedicated subnets on each port with their own firewall rules. Each machine has it’s own firewall in place. I use all three major platforms he

Re: cyber war / moving back to Linux

2022-03-23 Thread Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss
Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss said on Tue, 22 Mar 2022 15:12:40 -0700 >Hey this guy motioned moving from Chrome to Firefox. Any thoughts? >Quick search says FF is the default for Linux. I use Chrome on Win >and I do not recall why because I have FF installed also. My experience is that Firefox

Re: cyber war / moving back to Linux

2022-03-22 Thread Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss
From what I can tell Edward Snowden uses Tails OS. Here is a video that gives an overview of Tails : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdE4-o2_v14 On 2022-03-22 12:08, greg zegan via PLUG-discuss wrote: Has anyone used or heard of this? Why This Is The Operating System Edward Snowden Reco

Re: cyber war / moving back to Linux

2022-03-22 Thread Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss
Hey this guy motioned moving from Chrome to Firefox. Any thoughts? Quick search says FF is the default for Linux. I use Chrome on Win and I do not recall why because I have FF installed also. On 2022-03-22 12:08, greg zegan via PLUG-discuss wrote: Has anyone used or heard of this? Why

Re: cyber war / moving back to Linux

2022-03-22 Thread greg zegan via PLUG-discuss
Has anyone used or heard of this? Why This Is The Operating System Edward Snowden Recommends | | | | | | | | | | | Why This Is The Operating System Edward Snowden Recommends | | | On Tuesday, March 22, 2022, 12:04:37 PM MST, Anthony Radzykewycz via PLUG-discuss wrote

Re: cyber war / moving back to Linux

2022-03-22 Thread Anthony Radzykewycz via PLUG-discuss
Hey Everybody, I'm fortunate enough to have a unique perspective on this topic. Without going into any detail at all (mostly because I have steered clear of being an active participant), I can say that there are ways to get involved. That'd be of your own accord, but I was provided a link earlie

Re: cyber war / moving back to Linux

2022-03-22 Thread Samuel Stavole-Carter via PLUG-discuss
A session on improving security would be great. I’ll check out Aaron’s stuff in the meantime. Thanks for sharing! On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 10:32 AM der.hans via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > Am 22. Mar, 2022 schwätzte Harold Hartley via PLUG-discuss so: > > moin moin, >

Re: cyber war / moving back to Linux

2022-03-22 Thread der.hans via PLUG-discuss
Am 22. Mar, 2022 schwätzte Harold Hartley via PLUG-discuss so: moin moin, I have been researching all the ways to harden my linux box so I don't have problems. But some of the research I have found to be out of date so I may check on here for things I want to harden my linux box against any ty

Re: cyber war / moving back to Linux

2022-03-22 Thread Harold Hartley via PLUG-discuss
I have been researching all the ways to harden my linux box so I don't have problems. But some of the research I have found to be out of date so I may check on here for things I want to harden my linux box against any type of attacks. On 3/22/22 09:46, Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss wrote: Hi,

cyber war / moving back to Linux

2022-03-22 Thread Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss
Hi, I understand there is a cyber war going on. I understand it is the worse so far. I hear it is coming from Russia. I moved to Windows about 6 years ago for business reasons. Those reasons have since passed. I do have one piece of software that runs on Win or MAC. So I am thinking of