linux isnt immune to viruses even though its not as bad as windows

what should i do to be safe if i have a safe browser, vm, but pirate and download risky things? i know its a vm but i still dont want to have to delete everything in the vm if something happens. also the malware doesnt go to the router and spread rigt???

  • Hakuso@scribe.disroot.org
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    11 hours ago

    I have nothing to hide, but I also have nothing I want them to see.

    Given the coice between paranoid and lazy more need to choose the former.

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      11 hours ago

      What they could see is the transmission over the internet to the tablet. If they detect torrent activity to the tablet, it wouldn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out where the files went, and it wouldn’t even matter because the crime is in the transmission. They wouldn’t even have to raid your house or anything, they would just sue you and show IP logs.

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        59 minutes ago

        My IP logs?

        Bold of you to assume I don’t have a cantenna pointed at a deli half a mile away.

        And the air gap is for malware, not for hiding your IP from swarm scraper bots.