-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday, 2013-04-30 at 13:16 -0700, John Andersen wrote:
On 4/30/2013 12:56 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
enabled. As my laptop is plugged in here it has its firewall disabled. That's because the LAN is behind a nice big commercial firewall box :-)
I would not dare to connect my machine without firewall on a corporate or school environment. Most successful attacks come from insiders.
Windows, Yes, I agree. Linux? Not a problem.
Who knows. Sometimes I have to open files with acrobat, because they don't work with any other reader. O have to run java applications I'm given.
You do understand, don't you Carlos, that a software firewall (iptables) can only stop packets AFTER they have already entered your machine? And if nothing is listening on a port no packet will be accepted on that port, and it won't get into your machine?
I do. Nevertheless, I prefer to be overly cautious. I prefer two layers, nothing listening on a port, and a firewall blocking "just in case" I forget something. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from 12.1 x86_64 "Asparagus" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlGAKswACgkQtTMYHG2NR9UdzgCdEZ0LRzEyX/2y2N93V9r1JRWU kx0AoIBrTn7BaxzmlXeXdHOmxYRqybDV =gW7j -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org