Re: Debian secure by default?
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 ?
LostSon
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