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Re:Zero-days in Cisco Discovery Protocol by tasty_freeze on Thursday February 06, 2020 @03:04PM (#22259745)
You are a worthwhile target at a minimum that your machines can be used as part of botnets and DOS networks.

Sure, they might not be digging out your bank account number, but since the cost to the attacker of compromising your machine might be nothing more than a few hundred packets, they'll try anyway.

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Re:Zero-days in Cisco Discovery Protocol by chundicus on Thursday February 06, 2020 @03:29PM (#22259960)
Sure, which is why I mentioned the "wide net". I take reasonable precautions, apply basic monitoring, and take care with what software I'm downloading so that I lower my risk of this. It's not foolproof but it's good enough to keep me from being an easy target, while not sacrificing any convenience or spending a lot of time fortifying my machine.
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