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Comment by justinsaccount

1 day ago

that quote seems to be a bit of an oversimplification to the point of being completely wrong.

> Without them, your system accepts arbitrary data from the public network.

Neither of these features change if you are accepting arbitrary data from the public network. They limit what an exploited process can do. It's explained properly in the 'Security' section, so I'm not sure where this came from.