Even open source… even if you compile your own Linux, unless you know how to read through the entire source code and confirm its safe, you could potentially be at risk.Īs with all things in life, there is a certain amount of implicit trust we place in things around us. Malware, spyware, etc can hide in anything. Open source doesn’t necessarily make something more trustworthy, as well. Are you using a smartphone? Are you using Nvidia or AMD driver blobs in Linux? Do you have any smart home devices? Is your TV “smart”? Do you own a newer car? You talk about not trusting “closed source” software? Yet I can guarantee you use it constantly. Using a phone as a crypto wallet is as secure as putting all your fiat money in a shed in your back yard and hiding the key to the shed under the welcome mat of the shed.

Using a phone wallet is risky and are a stupid idea. Your friends were using PHONE wallets! Them losing their money had nothing to do with Phoenixminer… Windows users, I wouldn’t even bother, you share everything anyway. Well off I go to literally update and re-do every single bit of my digital footprint. THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO SAFETY when it comes to NETWORK. I have been in networks since 1984 - yes for real, even spent 6 years teaching all over North America.Īfter all these decades in Network, I still say When I win the lottery, I am going to crush every electronic device I have in to pieces and dump them in the river before heading North. I don’t need to tell anyone reading this ENORMOUS TASK!

SMOS on the other hand, I don’t have much control over.Īt this point, I am thinking I may wipe all accounts, all machines and just start fresh.Īlso going to have to wipe and reload every 2FA used out there along with any and all passwords for any and all websites in my digital footprint. I generally add a whitelist rule for my main Tech PC to be able to SSH to them. This will cut off ANY communication to the LAN from or to these boxes. I never did trust closed source software starting with OhGodEthLrgmnt Pill.Īnyway, in meantime, I used NORDVPN on all my Linux machines including the HiveOS.

I used a managed switch and have isolated subnets for different PCs.Īll use Phoenix which has me pretty concerned.

I have machines with CentOS, Kali and Ubuntu in my network only. Since I had 2 friends lose over 70 thousand dollars in crypto in last month, I removed the blight of Windows from my network entirely. If you read the NiceHack article you know as much as I do.

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