Powerful, highly stealthy Linux trojan may have infected victims for years
I concede that it's not a panacea, but I really do feel like filtering outbound requests is going to be one of the best defences we have against stuff like this going forward.<p>It protects you against:<p>- viruses / trojans that try to call out<p>- ad tracking (and ads in general, if you want)<p>- intrusive analytics<p>- suspect consumer devices (TVs that transmit live audio, network cameras that connect to the cloud even though the cloud feature is disabled, content players that try to report your activity)<p>Edit: formatting