Ask HN: How do people secure their Linux computer?

4 points by foo12bar ↗ HN
With both a development environment, games and my personal documents on the same machine, I'm starting to worry about security and separating things into different sandboxes. How are people doing this nowadays?

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My method is very primitive: I have separate physical machines for work and for personal use. And I don't mix the two. The work machine uses my employer's security policy (When I use a freelancing laptop, it is encrypted and uses ubikey for unlocking. I install a new OS for a new job). This way I don't have to worry about visiting not so reputable sites through company VPN or uploading a company document to 4chan accidentally... because these things are just separated as hard as possible.
VMs, docker containers. it depends on the sw and how much you trust it