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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