Ask HN: How do people secure their Linux computer?

4 points by foo12bar 30 days ago | 5 comments

With both a development environment, games and my personal documents on the same machine, I'm starting to worry about security and separating things into different sandboxes. How are people doing this nowadays?

not_your_vase 30 days ago |

My method is very primitive: I have separate physical machines for work and for personal use. And I don't mix the two. The work machine uses my employer's security policy (When I use a freelancing laptop, it is encrypted and uses ubikey for unlocking. I install a new OS for a new job). This way I don't have to worry about visiting not so reputable sites through company VPN or uploading a company document to 4chan accidentally... because these things are just separated as hard as possible.

orionblastar 30 days ago |

You need to harden Linux: https://github.com/trimstray/the-practical-linux-hardening-g...

grigio 30 days ago |

VMs, docker containers. it depends on the sw and how much you trust it

atmanactive 30 days ago |

QubesOS?

foo12bar 30 days ago | |

I don't think QubesOS works with 3d acceleration