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... that is, until you connect to a malicious server that can exploit a local vulnerability. then you're screwed.

Who only uses their machine explicitely for gaming?



In there are lots of people who use Macs or Linux for everything but gaming and gaming for Windows. My son has a PC used for gaming and nothing else.


Still. Imagine the following scenario: your son's machine is compromised because of said exploits. It's in the same network as your other systems. The attacker can now sniff all traffic, attack other systems. Do you have good network segmentation in place?




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