In early 2017, the Netflix team open sourced Stethoscope, an application that collects information about users’ devices and provides them with recommendations for securing them. At the time, the app was web-based, and checked devices for things like enabled disk encryption, firewall, screen lock, automatic updates (and whether the OS and various software is up-to-date), and installed security tools. The app still checks for all that and a few other things (e.g., whether remote login … More →

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