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[-] klankin@piefed.ca 1 points 21 hours ago

Yeah, sorry I meant more in the way that a user in a VM is a really different threat surface to a full root user.

For sure both should apply security patches, and avoid malware, I'm just wondering even within that model what the differences are.

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