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Re: firewall package for laptop wi-fi client



> Open wifi hot-spots (or open networks) are dangerous because all your
> "neighbors" can represent a potential security risk (they have "physical"
> access to your machine), meaning that you should enforce your computer
> firewall rules to treat all of the LAN computers as "untrusted" hosts
> which BTW is not the normal behavior of a firewall (in a LAN environment,
> internal hosts are the "good" guys and rules are relaxed for the whole
> LAN machines).

Do you really trust your hosts at lan network? It's a dangerous way.
There can be hackers, viruses inside your lan network also..

--
Eero


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