Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1777 mails)

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2010-09-09 at 09:05 +0200, Per Jessen wrote:
> James Knott wrote:
> > Per Jessen wrote:
> > > > Golly - NAT IS NOT A SECURITY MEASURE!  How many times does that
> > > > have
> > > > >  to be said to sink in?
> > > It doesn't matter, it still does pretty well as such.
> > It doesn't do anything that a properly configured firewall can't do.
> > Start by blocking everything and then allow only what you want.
> Sure, but with NAT in his xDSL router, Joe Bloggs doesn't have to do
> anything at all. 

And what does he have to do with IPv6?  Nothing at all! AND all his apps
[and games!] just work.  The default firewall on every device I've seen
is block-all-incoming-connections.  So nothing changes as far as the
[mythical] joe-user is concerned.

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