"Although to be fair thats like saying your pc is harder to hack because it hasn't got a network card. Superiority through inferiority"
No, it's like saying your network shouldn't have direct memory access, which you, it shouldn't. Networking does not require DMA, there is no valid reason that one production machine should be able to directly access another production machine's memory (the operable word being production; if you are doing software development there are plenty of reasons that might be useful). Surprise surprise, that is a huge security risk and it always has been.
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"Although to be fair thats like saying your pc is harder to hack because it hasn't got a network card. Superiority through inferiority"
No, it's like saying your network shouldn't have direct memory access, which you, it shouldn't. Networking does not require DMA, there is no valid reason that one production machine should be able to directly access another production machine's memory (the operable word being production; if you are doing software development there are plenty of reasons that might be useful). Surprise surprise, that is a huge security risk and it always has been.