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Re:A Linux botnet is launching crippling DDoS attacks in exc... by dredmorbius on Wednesday September 30, 2015 @12:18PM (#10305008)
Debian's policy is that if you install a service, you intend for it to run by default. Since services aren't installed by default, this is a fairly defensible position, though it's been commented on many times.

It's possible and fairly straightforward to disable autostart of services through either old-school SysV init or, I suspect, systemd.

Upshot: running complex systems isn't entirely trivial.

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Re:A Linux botnet is launching crippling DDoS attacks in exc... by conceit on Wednesday September 30, 2015 @01:03PM (#10305386)
Yes, a desktop computer is a complex system, that's why I leave these not entirely trivial plumbings to the system programmers. The downside of this is the exploited systems that potentially everyone has to suffer.
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