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It sounds like in this case “exposing CUPS to the Internet” means “running a Linux desktop on the Internet” which while not something I would do doesn’t seem cr
by eadmund 2y ago
It sounds like in this case “exposing CUPS to the Internet” means “running a Linux desktop on the Internet” which while not something I would do doesn’t seem crazy. I would hope that a default Debian desktop installation would be secure enough to set up without a firewall.
I certainly expect that a Linux laptop shouldn’t be highly vulnerable to every other device on, say, an æroport’s WiFi.
- rollcat 2y ago> I would hope that a default [OS] desktop installation would be secure enough to set up without a firewall. The OS you have in mind is called OpenBSD, which has had two remote holes in the default installation in about 3 decades; and if you don't need to run Linux-only applications, it actually is a pretty decent desktop. I don't blame Linux distributions however - both Windows and macOS are way worse. We've been living through a crisis of complexity, everyone is keen to call out Electron apps but we keep on installing and using them. As long as we accept this complexity, things will keep getting worse.