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Re: Place your bets - Closed vs Stealthed

said by SnowyOne See Profile :

Is there any more danger to running closed vs stealth?
That would depend on what's running & who's running it.
I would be highly amazed if I lost this system to some evil hacker, closed is closed and is in effect the same as banging your head against a brick wall (stealthed) as banging your head against a locked steel door (closed, you know its a door, but its not going to open so the effect is just the same as banging your head against the brick wall).

Blake
Edit -> added the 'locked' to the steel door
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Re: Place your bets - Closed vs Stealthed

said by Link Logger See Profile :

I would be highly amazed if I lost this system to some evil hacker, closed is closed and is in effect the same as banging your head against a brick wall (stealthed) as banging your head against a locked steel door (closed, ...
Of course! And you may remember we discussed this a bit last year, and I ran for four days on a Win2K system with all ports closed except 135. I left the firewall enabled but all inbound traffic permitted, so that I could log everything.

I was arguing that the average home system doesn't even need a firewall if everything is configured properly - which, of course, I do not advocate unless the user is completely sure that the system is tight.

Closed Port Test

-rich
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