-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday, 2009-03-31 at 18:55 +0200, Per Jessen wrote:
A hacker could log into the router (telnet),
How can you even think about security if your router has public telnet access?
I'm not that dumb! I closed it, but the factory defaults leave it open for a range of IPs, supposedly those of the ISP technicians. What I means is that the defaults the router provided by my ISP has, are unsafe, and many users do not even touch them.
thus the need for a firewall running on our computers, even on the "internal" network.
No, that is the wrong thinking. A firewall is of zero use unless it is in between two networks.
Not quite. SuSEfirewall2 protects the machine it is running on from the network.
Still two networks involved - your machine has it's own network (127.0.0.0/8).
Virtually. And some programs are listening on the eth network. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAknVVbIACgkQtTMYHG2NR9VhbQCfVHeonsKUx+zdhlsG0ws0Hlpi LOMAnilSdcYqt7dk4zr8Oqlus3mG5ECg =hKye -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org