Did you even read the post ?

I think it might be because of dependencies that might not be the same version on other distros

Imagine thousands of people not succeeding in crashing a megacorp on purpose, and then one rich guy crashing it just by being stupid

Depends on your use case, but any up-to-date distro is secure. Security issues mainly comes from the user's actions.

iptables -P INPUT DROP

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