Comment on Do I really need a firewall for my server?
JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world 5 weeks agoPossibly it’s about personality types. I was only going on my own experience. Of always being told by a chorus of experts “Oh no you don’t want to do that!” and ending up being terrified to touch anything. When I now know that I usually had nothing to be afraid of, because dangerous things tend to be locked down by design, exactly as they should be.
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
Until they arent.
They are experts because they knew what clicking the wrong button might do.
E.g.: Database admins using the wrong script with a miscconfigured argument or a backup admin responding to a failover, tripple checking every setting to not create a problematic failover and then still clicking the wrong button causing an outage because some random behaviour caused an overload.
It happens. And best case you were better (double or tripple) safe than sorry.