> The problem is that the internet is nowhere near as "safe" as it was a few decades ago. It wasn't very safe a few decades ago either. In 2000, I had naively

> The problem is that the internet is nowhere near as "safe" as it was a few decades ago. It wasn't very safe a few decades ago either. In 2000, I had naively set up a Linux box under my desk with a public IP, thinking maybe I could host a blog on it. It got a number of portscans within minutes of being set up, and subsequent monitoring showed lots of intrusion attempts. Luckily the box was patched, but I was essentially one zero-day away from being 0wn3d. But I did learn a lot before moving the box behind a firewall. I guess that back in the day, some people could wish these away as unproven threats well into the early 2000s until malware like Nimda / Code Red well and truly destroyed that illusion.