Linux Foundation's security checklist can help harden workstations

If you're a Linux user, especially a systems administrator, the Linux Foundation has some security tips to share with you, and they're quite good.

Konstantin Ryabitsev, the Foundation's director of collaborative IT services, published the security checklist that the organization uses to harden the laptops of its remote sysadmins against attacks.

The recommendations aim to balance security with usability, and are accompanied by explanations of why they were considered. They also have different severity levels: critical, moderate, low and paranoid.

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