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New UEFI vulnerabilities send firmware devs industry wide scrambling (arstechnica.com)
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[โ€“] Blackmist@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's that necessarily a good thing?

I remember suddenly needing a firewall on my PC back in the days of the Blaster worm.

Do we really want all those crappy IoT devices open on all ports to the general internet?

[โ€“] ryannathans@aussie.zone 9 points 9 months ago

NAT is not security. We aren't talking about replacing friewalls.