Comment by Dylan16807

Comment by Dylan16807 3 hours ago

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Since we're talking about programs that are trying to set up a connection no matter what, I'm going to say "not much". It's not significantly shrinking the attack surface and forcing attackers onto a plan B that's meaningfully harder to do. It just adds this layer of awkwardness to everything, and attackers shrug and adapt.

ectospheno 2 hours ago

You block inbound to block inbound. Of course it doesn’t do anything for outbound. Acting like you can just turn inbound filtering off because of that is disingenuous.

  • Dylan16807 2 hours ago

    Nobody suggested "just turn inbound filtering off"?? We're talking about an alternate universe of program design.

    And we're talking about malware in general, not inbound or outbound specifically.