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by 0cf8612b2e1e 679 days ago
You don’t know what they are sending. Maybe today it is innocuous data. Tomorrow, they ship off your ssh keys.

Better to default deny all.

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A program that does not connect to the network at all today can also start shipping off your ssh keys tomorrow. Anything can always be added or changed.
Probably a higher chance of that being noticed though. ;)