Overheard a DevOps guy say he never patches his homelab servers

I was at a coffee shop and this guy next to me bragged to his friend that his personal server has been running unpatched for 2 years straight. Dude, that's literally how you get pwned - I had a friend lose a whole crypto wallet that way back in 2021. Has anyone else dealt with people who think security patches are optional?

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caseyc303mo ago

@nancy_owens right, patches are just "suggestions" until your server starts mining crypto for someone else.

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nancy_owens3mo ago

My neighbor's nephew ran his entire freelance web dev business off an unpatched Ubuntu box for 3 years straight, he only fixed it when the ransomware literally locked him out of his own projects. 2 years is like playing Russian roulette with a fully loaded revolver but hey, maybe that guy has a really good backup strategy or just really likes living dangerously. Ive seen people lose entire databases from dumb stuff like that, not just crypto wallets. Guess some folks think security patches are just suggestions from the software overlords or something.

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