> How do you develop locally while making sure the privacy/security of your system is not compromised? For me and all developers I've interacted with around me

> How do you develop locally while making sure the privacy/security of your system is not compromised? For me and all developers I've interacted with around me, I think the answer is "we don't [make sure that the privacy/security of our systems are not compromised]". I would bet it's fairly common to have multiple machines however. My work machine has never seen my banking credentials or HN password. But of course a bunch of work-related sensitive stuff. And I of course have a bunch of programming stuff on my home machine, which I mostly just hope are not doing nefarious stuff. If I wanted to up my security (in just this aspect) I would probably go for a simple VM as a first step. Resonable enough separation, while not causing too much havoc in my workflow. No folder sharing, just SSH in to it and treat it like a remote VPS, but local. The next step up, which also increases isolation between other stuff (should I really trust any application to not do bad stuff?) would probably be QubeOS[1]. While I haven't used it, I would guess it would be a pretty major change to my current setup. [1]: https://www.qubes-os.org/intro/ https://www.qubes-os.org/intro/