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I can still hear your startup sound (lemmy.zip)
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[–] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

Yeah the crazy thing is that most people were using ADSL connections directly from their computer, without a router.

Raw dogging the internet with no firewall, that was wild.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

    That's a really good point. Maybe that was cool before the Internet was swarming with exploit-sniffing bots, but nowadays? I can't even imagine!

    I've seen some videos where people open port 80 on their home network running something like PFSense. In seconds it's like "Now_all_of_China_knows_you're_here.jpeg" LOL.

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