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> Ideally you'd do the least amount of browsing and reading email possible on your work laptop and sandbox whatever is left if possible.

Ideally.

How many people are posting here from their work laptops? And how many have SSH access to at least one "secure" system?

Granted, HN is unlikely to be a threat, but other sources may be. There has been progress in sandboxing, but dev machines are specially vulnerable, as in many cases you need people to be admin on them to do their jobs effectively.



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