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I think it was a rant, but still related to the post. Its point is that we need to minimize the attack surface of our infrastructure, even at home. People tend to expose services unintentionally, but what's so bad about that? After all, they are password protected.

Well, even when these exposed services are not built to cause harm or provide admin privileges, like all software they tend to not be memory secure. This gives a lucky attacker a way in from just exposing a single port on the network. I can see where comments on memory unsafe languages fit in here, although vulnerabilities such as XSS also apply no matter what language we build software with.