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  • And given that the appliance needs to communicate with the app on your phone while you’re not home in the first place, there probably isn’t even a separate tracking API vs. data just being harvested as part of normal operations. So “back door” doesn’t really fit. “Broken by design” or “spyware” would be more apt, I think.

    Still, I’m really not a fan of calling any spying/data harvesting a “front door” – IIRC, the term was coined by an FBI head pushing for back doors in our phones so the FBI could scan our messages. But he called it a “front door” as a way to dodge the reasons why building back doors in our security software is a terrible idea.

    It’s just another step in the terrible trend of “let’s pretend that this horrible idea is ok if we just rename it” :(



  • Honestly, I can’t even imagine what it would be like having only owned two cars in my whole life.

    Easy, just think back to when you were driving your second car ;)

    What typically prompts you to buy a new car?

    For me, it’s always been that I “need” a car for commuting, so I’ve looked for something reliable and efficient (I put “need” in quotes because technically, the bus routes in my city could have gotten me to work without a car. Turning a 20 minute drive into a 90 minute bus ride isn’t super palatable, though).

    I bought my first car used and my second car new around the time Cash for Clunkers was affecting the used car market.


  • Oh, I didn’t think about having multiple cars. Are you a big car guy?

    I’m in my early 40s, and I’ve owned two cars. I bought my current car after the last one got rear-ended.

    Sidenote, I’m not counting cars that belonged to spouses or the car I drove in college – technically, that one belonged to my parents. If you add those in, I’m probably up to 6 or 7 cars.



  • Simple: Computers are not doors with locks. Antivirus is not a deadbolt, and IMO it’s really misleading to compare them. You’re trying to tell people in this thread that you need AV on Linux, against consensus, “because security”. I still don’t understand why you think it’s necessary. What’s your threat model? How does AV improve security on your servers in a way that a firewall doesn’t?



  • But would you put a deadbolt on your garage door? Or on your fridge door? IMO, arguing by analogy here just obfuscates the points – your servers aren’t physical doorways with locks, and comparing them just confuses the issue.

    Can you explain what added security an antivirus package would offer for a Linux server? I haven’t done much with Linux administration, mostly just using Docker images for stuff at work.

    I’m not a super Linux expert or anything, but I do grok tech, and I’m curious about this topic.