Shawn Webb is a user on mastodon.social. You can follow them or interact with them if you have an account anywhere in the fediverse.
If you don't, you can sign up here.
"It's not safe to run an internet facing Windows box right now," a hacker who used to work in the US Department of Defense said to Motherboard.
I'm thinking this could be a good time to introduce your friends to #Linux.
I wrote a bit on why over on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/65gnkm/this_could_be_a_good_time_to_talk_to_your_friends/
@forteller Setting them up a pfsense box would go a lot further towards protecting them.
@munin @forteller at least use a firewall that has exploit mitigations baked in, like OPNsense. ;)
@forteller @lattera If you are capable of doing more then do so.
The point is to raise the bar and help people stay safe, not to sit around virtue signaling over one's choice of software