cyber war / moving back to Linux

[Eric Oyen]

Anyone remember the old Cold War mentality: defense in depth?

That’s how I treat security here. The router has a firewall, the managed switch after it has dedicated subnets on each port with their own firewall rules. Each machine has it’s own firewall in place. I use all three major platforms here with OS X being my primary and Linux being a close second. Windows gets relegated to document scanning and OCR work (I have the kurzwieel 1000 software package on there, so I might as well use it). OS X handles all my multimedia requests and Linux pretty much takes everything else that can be offloaded and used by a blind geek such as I.

Now, all I need to do is setup a paywall and have my wi-fi secured as well (if anyone wants to use it, they have to pay me).

-Eric
From the Central Offices of the Technomage Guild, Defense implementation Dept.


> On Mar 22, 2022, at 9:46 AM, Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss <plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I understand there is a cyber war going on.  I understand it is the worse so far.  I hear it is coming from Russia.
> 
> I moved to Windows about 6 years ago for business reasons.  Those reasons have since passed.  I do have one piece of software that runs on Win or MAC.  So I am thinking of running that on a Win laptop I have and it will be isolated for the most part.
> 
> I'm thinking it is time to move back to Linux for my laptop.
> 
> I think we need to open a discussion on this cyber war.
> 
> Thoughts?
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