Once your OS is grown enough to play (I mean installed), you have to sit down with it and do the SECURITY TALK.

A little on the philosophical side of it, I think sense of security is just a fad and a perception. You are secure when you start feeling it, or we can keep on going paranoid tweaking it deeper and deeper, there will always exploits to to be known, more tools to be learnt, more WMDs to be discovered!

Always have a second plan- backup your data.

Lets get back to our Linux Box.

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