On Saturday 24 May 2008 03:49:53 pm Richard Hector wrote: > On Sat, 2008-05-24 at 11:47 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > I see no advantage to host-based firewalls that couldn't be better served > > by a router doing filtering at the edge of the network. There's no > > reason to expose machines directly to the internet. > > It's perhaps a little excessive to carry a router with you for > connecting your laptop to public WiFi, or via a cellphone, for instance. Don't run services on laptops connected to public wifi or via a cell phone. -- Paul Johnson baloo@ursine.ca Explaination of .pgp part: http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Mail/rant-gpg.html
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