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Re:Why Is This Website Port Scanning Me? by Sargos on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @12:00PM (#23248438)
Anyone who has enough technical knowledge to have a reason to turn these off should be just fine with about:config. We don't want a situation where normal users just randomly go into the config turning things off because they think they are doing something good. That's how we get another group of low-tech "turn off Windows Update" types who just harm themselves as a result of their incompetence.
Re:Why Is This Website Port Scanning Me? by bottled_poe on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @12:04PM (#23248490)
I think people turned those updates off for good reason... but it wasn’t the users that were incompetent.
Re:Why Is This Website Port Scanning Me? by mindslight on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @12:03PM (#23248481)
Anyone who has enough technical knowledge to have a reason to turn these on should be fine with about:config. The default settings should be secure.