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The honeymoon of Lego-brick replaceable USB ports is over?
Anyone who watched the Artemis landing yesterday would have been keen to notice all the Windows PCs in use at Mission Control — nearly all hosting remote Linux applications.
Not a Mac in sight.
They were using VLC on Windows in space.
If all the Macs in the world disappeared tomorrow, everything essential would somehow continue unabated.
Digital signing on Windows predates Mac developer certificates by years but arguably wasn't widely used outside of security-paranoid organizations.
Before someone says Linux offers GPG signing it's mostly useless without a central PKI. Developers offer the public key for download on the same server as the software. If someone uploaded compromised software, surely they would replace the key with their own.
You might have to use an Ethernet connection though, as the Wi-Fi may not be supported.
They usually request something deep like /foo/bar/login.html as part of their reconnaissance.
I'm up to 4 pages of filter rules after the massive IP blacklist.
These assholes are also scanning every address on the IPv4 internet and hoovering up the content.
To answer your first question: No, that's the OS's job. But some clever rules could be setup for filtering invalid requests depending on your web server.
Brits build their homes around the sockets, not the other way around.