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lfit / itpol

itpol

Useful IT policies

11Distinct people
11Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
4.9KGitHub stars
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Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 1:49:46 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year11 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2015-08-28 06:36:34 UTC to 2024-03-05 18:34:15 UTC.

01232015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 2 submissions, 1 comments20152016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 2 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC321
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC312
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC220
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

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Not long before malware becomes more prevalent on Linux now that more people are using it. But Linux is not some magic bullet that stops all malware, you have to practice good opsec and harden your environment too. How to do this is outside the scope of my comment. If you are concerned though there are these resources: 󠁃󠁯󠁮󠁶󠁥󠁲󠁴󠀠󠁁󠁓󠁃󠁉󠁉󠀠󠁴󠁥󠁸󠁴󠀠󠁴󠁯󠀠󠁕󠁮󠁩󠁣󠁯󠁤󠁥󠀠󠁔󠁡󠁧󠁳󠀠󠁷󠁨󠁩󠁣󠁨󠀠󠁡󠁲󠁥󠀠󠁩󠁮󠁶󠁩󠁳󠁩󠁢󠁬󠁥󠀠󠁩󠁮󠀠󠁭󠁯󠁳󠁴󠀠󠁕󠁉󠀠󠁥󠁬󠁥󠁭󠁥󠁮󠁴󠁳󠀮󠁃󠁨󠁥󠁣󠁫󠀠󠁩󠁦󠀠󠁡󠀠󠁴󠁥󠁸󠁴󠀠󠁨󠁡󠁳󠀠󠁨󠁩󠁤󠁤󠁥󠁮󠀠󠁕󠁮󠁩󠁣󠁯󠁤󠁥󠀠󠁔󠁡󠁧󠁳󠀠󠁥󠁭󠁢󠁥󠁤󠁤󠁥󠁤󠀠󠁷󠁩󠁴󠁨󠀠󠁄󠁥󠁣󠁯󠁤󠁥󠀮󠀠https://github.com/lfit/itpol/blob/master/linux-workstation-... https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/linux.html
In Why desktop Linux is finally growing in popularity
The Linux Foundation published a guide recently[1] which has recommendations for desktop. Take into consideration that unless you're running SELinux in full-enforcing mode (NOT targeted-enforcing, the default!), you still have a HUGE attack surface on your machine if you're using a web browser alone. This presentation[2] also goes into some detail about an overall layered security approach and touches on workstation security. If you really-really-really need security, you could consider something like QubesOS[3] to segregate your applications. [1] https://github.com/lfit/itpol/blob/master/linux-workstation-... [2] http://kernsec.org/files/lss2015/giant-bags-of-mostly-water.... [3] https://www.qubes-os.org
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