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On Linux, if someone hacks my browser all I could ever lose is the stuff on my home directory. Of course these tend to be precisely the only things you actuall
by pedrocr 16y ago
On Linux, if someone hacks my browser all I could ever lose is the stuff on my home directory.
Of course these tend to be precisely the only things you actually care about in the whole system. Assuming it's a desktop machine of course.
- steveklabnik 16y agoWhich is why he talked about backups, and why they're important. This doesn't mean your backup couldn't get infected...
- yason 16y agoI have backups for my files anyway. Everyone should. It's the long, painful reinstallation process that I would have to do on a typical Windows machine to fully restore the pristine installation state after a virus/malware attack.