On Fri, 2008-05-16 at 19:09 -0700, Lee Glidewell wrote: > On Friday 16 May 2008 07:02:59 pm Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Friday 16 May 2008 07:01:38 pm lostson wrote: > > > > > > My 2 cents a default firewall would be nice > > > > You mean like Windows has? How about not. Here's why: > > http://samspade.org/d/firewalls.html > The money quote from that link: > "So... what does a 'personal firewall' actually do? Well, effectively it > listens on all the ports on your system. This provides no real additional > security over turning off the services that you don't use." > > The nature and purpose of a "firewall" seems to be greatly misunderstood. > Personally, I think security vendor hype is as much to blame as naivete. > > Lee > > So basically a firewall is useless ?
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