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Do you need to have a firewall on a linux desktop?

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Do you need to have a firewall on a linux desktop?

Mohammad K.@discuss.tchncs.de to

Linux@lemmy.ml · 1 year ago

Hi. I wanted to know if it’s needed to install a firewall on a linux desktop/laptop. Why yes or why no?

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There’s incoming and then there’s outgoing traffic. Software firewalls can forbid processes that may be advertised as “offline only” from reaching out; typically a hardware firewall doesn’t care about this kind of thing.

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