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justinsaccounttoday at 4:17 PM1 replyview on HN

that quote seems to be a bit of an oversimplification to the point of being completely wrong.

> Without them, your system accepts arbitrary data from the public network.

Neither of these features change if you are accepting arbitrary data from the public network. They limit what an exploited process can do. It's explained properly in the 'Security' section, so I'm not sure where this came from.


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Bendertoday at 4:51 PM

that quote seems to be a bit of an oversimplification to the point of being completely wrong.

Under Portability [1] I don't have access to update that repo. I deleted my accounts when Microsoft took over.

[1] - https://github.com/kristapsdz/openrsync