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Rather than “network you attach it to,” would it be more precise to say “repository it can automatically install software from”? What I think of as “the network
by sjy 6y ago
Rather than “network you attach it to,” would it be more precise to say “repository it can automatically install software from”? What I think of as “the network” has very little control over my devices, and some of them even work without network access.
- hinkley 6y agoA lot of software is set up to be run in a corporate environment, because that's where the money is. There are a bunch of spam blockers that utilize these features in order to keep, for instance, a browser, from misbehaving too badly. So from that standpoint, you need a piece of hardware you can trust implicitly, and tell your other applications and hardware that they're only allowed to talk to the Internet by talking to this machine.