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by adriancr 1640 days ago
Rootkits/exploits appear on any operating system.

Wipe and reinstall often, rotate passwords at same time, also teaches good backups.

ad blocker by default and always up to date system.

Use VMs or other machines for dubious websites and wipe those often (like a raspberry?)

Careful what you execute on your machine

Then if you're really paranoid:

Some external firewall running suricata for alerting

Logging to an external system so you can review things in case of issues.

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In this spirit I've been playing with spun up Firefox instances in a Google Cloud Run. The container is stateless and goes away after I close the page that connects to video stream of the other container in my browser.
For all intents and purposes Google is the civilian NSA, I'm not sure you're gaining anything by creating VM in their cloud!
I'm assuming they want some protection against adtech companies or the local coffee shop sysadmin. Running Firefox in the cloud "to avoid detection by the NSA" would indeed be quite foolish.
Do you find the performance satisfactory enough for daily browsing?
Way back in 2009 I helped design and implement basically "Firefox on AWS EC2" - I had YouTube audio and "video" working, in the subwindow, not Fullscreen. It was roughly 5-10FPS, about what you'd get with VNC, with perfect audio.

I had an idea that thin clients were going to be big - and I stupidly pitched ideas for cloud based software to Adobe, Newtek, and Autodesk.

Never gunna do that again.