Thread 106918255

How do I make sure my Arch Linux install is safe from hackers?

>>106918255 (OP)
do nothing. hackers have no interest in an OS that is 0.0000000001% of the market.

>>106918255 (OP)
Unplug the ethernet cable

Might as well install nixos since all the important stuff is read only

>>106918255 (OP)
install gentoo. they can't hack you if your kernel modules never actually compile.

>>106918255 (OP)
Cover your pc with one of your chins.

plug unused ports with a wax seal so you can easily tell when it was penetrated

>>106918639
How can I tell if it was penetrated before I got my hands on it? Don't want used goods.

>>106918255 (OP)
Uninstall NetworkManager / iwd

>>106918255 (OP)
you are fucking retarded

>>106918255 (OP)
Virually all Linux distros have code checked into them by state sponsored hackers mainly china but also thye NSA North Korea and France as well as organised crime groups. They are a mass of kernel exploits.

>>106918255 (OP)
>Block incoming connections by default.
>Make sure that you are only exposing ports when absolutely necessary, and that those ports are using the correct protocols (e.g. TCP vs. UDP).
>Use nonstandard ports for services you need to access remotely.
>Only allow key-based authentication for SSH.
>Block bogons and highly suspicious IP addresses + ranges.
>Don't serve too much public-facing stuff.
>Don't run commands or scripts that you don't understand.
This is all that 99.9% of people need.

>>106919443
BUllshit. You are all morons who think you know a thing or tworunning a backdoored machine to the NSA and the CCP. Tech has been overloeaded with pretentious talentless morons since the .com boom. Linux is prehacked by default. If it6 had more than a few % of desktops you would be drowned in ransomware as it stands its mainly used for sideways m ovement from DMZs by brig crooks who are given exploits by states that injected them into it. Shit for shitheads. Always was, always will be.

should i just install fedora? i don't think arch is very secure.

>>106919473
>BUllshit
>tworunning
>overloeaded
>prehacked
>it6
>sideways m ovement
>brig crooks
>backdoored machine to the NSA and the CCP
Fuck off to your win11 gaming machine, you subliterate nigger.

>>106919668
You're a child to me all you can do is shout at some tribe in your head like it is a console war while you run linux crap rooted by the nsa and ccp like the low level mouthbreather you are larping as something you are not. Linux is the land of the stupid and talentless desperate to be seen as alt.2600 when they were not even born then

>>106919473
>>106921157
Maybe criticize his suggestions instead of going full sperg. His points were pretty solid.

>>106921194
My points are the truth. Linux BECAUSE IT IS OPEN SOURCE has actors checking in exploits for every major power on earth for a decade. YOU are all braindead.

>>106918255 (OP)
TLDR. IT is not safe from hackers or state actors. Linux distros are the most insecure operating system on earth and come preloeaded with kernel exploits checked in by every major power for over a decade. Enjoy..

>>106918255 (OP)
dont turn it on

>>106918255 (OP)
make everything from scratch

>>106921221
That's not criticizing the other guys points. That's just you raving like a looney and equating it to some geopolitics slop.
I'm beginning to think YOU are the moron you're accusing him to be since you won't even engage with him.

as if major powers of the world are gonna hack some fucking nerd using linux to watch tentacle hentai

>>106921272
>Linux distros are the most insecure operating system on earth
yeah that's why basically all Supercomputers use it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_systems#Supercomputers
and also 77% of web servers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_systems#Market_share_by_category

>>106918255 (OP)
Unplug the ethernet cable.
Ez

>>106918255 (OP)
>uses open source OS
>doesn't give other people access to your computer
That's not very free as in freedom of you

>>106918411
Computer security has just been solved

>>106918340
i run arch and have millions in bitcoins. hackers should target us more