• umbrella
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    1 month ago

    if that is connected to the internet, its probably infested

      • dingdong@lemm.ee
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        1 month ago

        To be fair, that really depends what you use your PC for. Looking at youtube without a profile, and reddit and the news, playing music, offline games. You will be 100% fine. If you have to log into somewhere with sensitive data, don’t. But as a secondary device you PROBABLY will be fine. Requires significant discipline, to not accidentally log into facebook on it though.

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          1 month ago

          Me not logging into facebook doesn’t require discipline. I haven’t done it in…

          checks time

          …ever.

          Now, I DO log into government nuke code websites. And I also check Burger King’s website. Just to see if they still sell burgers.

          As of last week…they do!

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            1 month ago

            See for exaple the fact wheter you ‘have’ to have facebook kinda locates you as an American. This is the issue with ‘sensitive’ data you may or may not know what it is.

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          1 month ago

          Why are people on your LAN exploiting vulnerabilities on your computer? Don’t you also have a network firewall and NAT?

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            1 month ago

            The biggest danger isn’t viruses sneaking their way in, it’s from the web browser and email client.